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Paris est beaucoup moins bruyant en été

Translation

Paris is much less noisy in summer



Analysis


Paris
     1. Proper noun. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)
     2. Proper noun. surname, common
     3. n. plural of pari
     pari
          1. n-m. wager, bet
          2. n-m. gamble, risk
est
     1. adj. east
     2. n-m. east
     3. v. third-person singular 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
beaucoup
     1. adv. much, very much, a lot
moins
     1. adv. comparative of peu; less, fewer
     2. adv. (with numbers) minus; negative
     3. adv. preceded by a definite article superlative of peu; the least
     4. n-m. the minus sign
     5. prep. minus
bruyant
     1. adj. noisy (making a noise)
en
     1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes)
     3. prep. by (used to indicate means)
     4. prep. as
     5. prep. at (used to describe an ability)
     6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition)
     7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years))
     8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while
     9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something
     10. prep. in (used to describe color)
     11. prep. in (used to describe feelings)
     12. prep. in (as part of something)
     13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.))
     14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici.
été
     1. n-m. summer
     2. Participle. past participle of être
     3. Participle. Louisiana French past participle of aller
     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
en être
     1. v. to have arrived at something; to be somewhere; to be in a certain situation; to stand somewhere
     2. v. (informal) to be game, to be in
     3. v. (informal, or derogatory) to be part of the LGBTQ community




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