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È morto tre anni fa.

Translation

He died three years ago.



Analysis


È
     essere
          1. v. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be, to stay
          2. v. (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to
          3. v. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed
          4. n. being
morto
     1. adj. (literal and figurative) dead
     2. adj. (by extension, colloquial, of a body part) dead (experiencing pins and needles)
     3. adj. (figurative, of a time period) past
     4. n-m. dead man
     5. n-m. corpse, dead body
     6. n-m. (figurative) An inactive or idle person.
     7. n-m. (card games) A fourth, absent player.
     8. n-m.          (bridge) dummy
     9. Participle. past participle of morire; died. (feminine: morta, masculine plural: morti, feminine plural: morte)
     morire
          1. n. death
          2. v. (intransitive) to die
tre
     1. num. (cln, it, cardinal numbers) three
     2. n. three
     3. n. (following the article le) three o'clock (a.m. or p.m.)
anni
     1. n. plural of anno
     anno
          1. n. year
          2. v. misspelling of hanno
fa
     1. adv. ago
     2. n. (music) fa (musical note)
     3. n. F (musical note or key)
     4. v. third-person singular present indicative of fare
     5. v. second-person singular imperative of fare
     fare
          1. v. to do
          2. v. to make
          3. v. to act
          4. v. to get someone to be something
          5. n. manner, way




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