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Sentence

Le poisson se mange avec du blanc.

Translation

fish is eaten with white wine.



Analysis


Le
     1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese
     2. art. the (definite article)
     3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
     4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
     5. art. (before units) a, an
     6. pron. (direct object) him, it
     7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
poisson
     1. n-m. fish (marine animal)
se
     1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.
     2. pron.          (to) himself
     3. pron.          (to) herself
     4. pron.          (to) oneself
     5. pron.          (to) itself
     6. pron.          (to) themselves
     7. pron.          (to) each other
     8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.)
mange
     1. v. first-person singular present of manger
     2. v. third-person singular present of manger
     3. v. second-person singular imperative of manger
     manger
          1. v. to eat
          2. n-m. food, foodstuff
avec
     1. prep. (accompaniment) with
     2. prep. (manner, instrument) with
     3. adv. (informal) too, also
du
     1. contraction. contraction of de + le (t=of the)
     2. contraction. , translation=The bulge gives 9nine liters more than the point which corresponds to that of the diameter of the base indicated by the gauge (...)
     3. art. Forms the partitive article.
     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
     le
          1. art. the (definite article)
          2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
          3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
          4. art. (before units) a, an
          5. pron. (direct object) him, it
          6. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
blanc
     1. adj. white color
     2. adj. blank, unused
     3. adj. (figurative, one's look) blank, without expression
     4. n-m. white (color)
     5. n-m. silence while in a dialog
     6. n-m. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form
     7. n-m. (informal) white wine
     8. n-m. white person, person with a white complexion
     9. n-m. albumen, egg white
     10. n-m. white meat
     11. n-m. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex




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