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Sentence

J'attends mon cousin à la gare.

Translation

I am waiting for my cousin at the station.



Analysis


je
     1. pron. I
attends
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of attendre
     2. v. second-person singular present indicative of attendre
     3. v. second-person singular imperative of attendre
mon
     1. det. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender)
     2. det. Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
cousin
     1. n-m. cousin (male)
     2. n-m. (regional, archaic) mosquito
à
     1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː.
     2. prep. to (destination)
     3. prep. to (until)
     4. prep. on the, to (some directions)
     5. prep. at (said of a particular time)
     6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place)
     7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations
     8. prep. from (origin)
     9. prep. of (belonging to)
     10. prep. till, until (used in farewells)
     11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with
     12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for
     13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed)
     14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective
     15. prep. by
     16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number)
     17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb.
     18. prep. with
la
     1. art. the (definite article)
     2. pron. her, it (direct object)
     3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A'
à la
     1. prep. a la, in the style or manner of (with a feminine singular adjective or a proper noun)
gare
     1. n-f. railway station
     2. v. singular present of garer
     3. v. second-person singular imperative of garer
     4. interj. (indtr, à) beware (something)
     garer
          1. v. to cover, to shelter
          2. v. to park (a vehicle)
          3. v. to dock (a vessel)




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