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Sentence

Un homme à qui j'ai parlé.

Translation

A man to whom I spoke/have spoken.



Analysis


un
     1. art. an, a
     2. num. number box, fr
     3. num. one
     4. pron. one, someone
     5. n-m. one (the number or figure)
homme
     1. n-m. man (adult male human)
     2. n-m. man, Man (species)
     3. n-m. man (virile male)
     4. n-m. man (employee)
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
qui
     1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom
     2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that
     3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if
je
     1. pron. I
ai
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of avoir
parlé
     1. Participle. past participle of parler
     2. adj. colloquial
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of parler
     4. v. first-person singular present subjunctive of parler
     parler
          1. v. to speak, talk
          2. v. to be able to communicate in a language; to speak
          3. v. (heraldry) to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name
          4. v. takes a reflexive pronoun
          5. n-m. parlance
          6. n-m. vernacular, dialect




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