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Sentence

Tu as failli à ta mission.

Translation

You failed your mission.



Analysis


tu
     1. pron. you (singular); thou
     2. Participle. past participle of taire
     3. part. (Quebec, informal) (question marker)
as
     1. n-m. ace (card of value 1)
     2. n-m. ace (expert or pilot)
     3. n-m. as (Roman coin)
     4. v. second-person singular present indicative of avoir
     avoir
          1. n-m. asset, possession
          2. v. to have (to own; to possess)
          3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs)
          4. v. to have (a condition)
          5. v. to have (a measure or age)
          6. v. to have (to trick)
          7. v. to have (to participate in an experience)
          8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive
failli
     1. Participle. past participle of faillir
     2. n-m. (law) bankrupt; insolvent.
     3. adj. (law) bankrupt; insolvent.
     faillir
          1. v. to almost do something
          2. v. to fail
          3. v. to go bankrupt
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
ta
     1. det. your
mission
     1. n-f. mission (duty that involves fulfilling a request)
     2. n-f. mission (religious evangelism)




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