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Je suis partante pour une partie d'échecs

Translation

I'm up for a game of chess.



Analysis


je
     1. pron. I
suis
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of être
     2. v. first-person singular present indicative of suivre
     3. v. second-person singular present indicative of suivre
     suivre
          1. v. to follow (literal sense)
          2. v. to follow; to get (figurative sense; to understand what someone is saying)
          3. v. to take (a course or a class)
     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
partante
     1. adj. feminine singular of partant
     partant
          1. Participle. present participle of partir
          2. n-m. runner, starter (in a foot race or horse race)
          3. n-m. a person who is leaving or departing
          4. adj. leaving, ready to leave
          5. adj. (informal) down, up for, game, keen, available
pour
     1. prep. for (meant for, intended for) (followed by a noun or pronoun)
     2. prep. for (in support of)
     3. prep. for (as a consequence for)
     4. prep. for (an intended destination)
     5. prep. to (to bring about an intended result) (followed by a verb in the infinitive)
     6. prep. for, to (according to)
une
     1. num. feminine singular of un
     2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article)
     3. n-f. front page (of a publication)
partie
     1. n-f. part (portion, amount)
     2. n-f. (legal) party
     3. n-f. game, play (sense "the conduct, or course of a game")
     4. n-f. (math) subset
     5. Participle. feminine singular 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
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
échecs
     1. n. plural of échec
     2. n. chess
     échec
          1. n-m. failure
          2. n-m. (chess) check
          3. interj. check




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