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Ils sont partis, me laissant tout seul dans ma chambre.

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ils
     1. pron. they (male or mixed group)
     2. pron. (Quebec, informal) they (female)
sont
     1. v. third-person plural 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
partis
     1. v. first-person singular past historic of partir
     2. v. second-person singular past historic of partir
     3. Participle. masculine plural of parti
     partir
          1. v. (obsolete, transitive) to share, to share out, to divide
          2. v. to go away, leave, depart
          3. v. to originate
          4. v. to die
          5. v. to emanate
          6. v. (Quebec, informal, transitive) to start
me
     1. pron. (direct object) me
     2. pron. (indirect object) to me
laissant
     1. Participle. present participle of laisser
     laisser
          1. v. to leave, to leave behind
          2. v. to forget, to leave alone
          3. v. to leave with, to give
          4. v. to let, to allow
          5. v. to allow oneself, to let oneself
tout
     1. adv. all
     2. det. all
     3. n-m. whole, entirety, total
     4. pron. everything
seul
     1. adj. lonely
     2. adj. alone
     3. adj. only
     4. adj. single
tout seul
     1. adj. all alone, alone, by oneself
     2. adv. alone, all by oneself
dans
     1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes)
     3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time)
     4. prep. (with respect to time) during
     5. prep. out of, from
     6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of
     7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les)
     8. n. plural of dan
ma
     1. det. feminine singular of mon
chambre
     1. n-f. a chamber in its various senses, including:
     2. n-f.          a room.
     3. n-f.          a hotel room.
     4. n-f.          a bedroom.
     5. n-f.          a house of a parliament.




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