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Je peux voir leur maison d'ici.

Translation

I can see their house from here.



Analysis


je
     1. pron. I
peux
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of pouvoir
     2. v. second-person singular present indicative of pouvoir
     pouvoir
          1. v. can, to be able to
          2. v. may
          3. v. (impersonal, reflexive) to be possible; may, could be
          4. n-m. (or un) power
          5. n-m. authority
          6. n-m. (legal) power of attorney
voir
     1. v. to see (visually)
     2. v. to see (to understand)
     3. v. to see (to visit, to go and see)
     4. adv. (Louisiana French) please (used to mark the imperative)
leur
     1. pron. (personal, indirect) (to) them
     2. det. their
maison
     1. n-f. house
     2. adj. homemade
     3. adj. (employment) in-house
     4. adj. (colloquial intensifier) first-rate, top-notch
de
     1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
     2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
     3. prep. from (used to indicate origin)
     4. prep. of (indicates an amount)
     5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
     6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
     7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
     8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change)
     9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.
     10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.
     11. n-f. abbreviation of dame
ici
     1. adv. here




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