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Sentence

Il est reconnaissable par sa hauteur.

Translation

it is recognisable by its height.



Analysis


il
     1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
     2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
     3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it
est
     1. adj. east
     2. n-m. east
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of être
     être
          1. v. to be
          2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs)
          3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice)
          4. n-m. being, creature
          5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence
reconnaissable
     1. adj. recognizable (able to be recognized)
par
     1. prep. through
     2. prep. by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction))
     3. prep. over (used to express direction)
     4. prep. from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement)
     5. prep. around, round (inside of)
     6. prep. on (situated on, used in certain phrases)
     7. prep. on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs)
     8. prep. in
     9. prep. per, a, an
     10. prep. out of (used to describe the reason for something)
     11. prep. for
     12. n-m. (golf) par
sa
     1. det. (possessive) his, her, its, their, one's
hauteur
     1. n-f. height, altitude
     2. n-f. arrogance
     3. n-f. (geometry) height
     4. n-f. (music) pitch




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