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Il sole è appena sorto.

Translation

The sun has just risen



Analysis


il
     1. art. the
sole
     1. n. (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)
     2. n. (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
     3. n. (alchemy) gold
     4. n. sunlight
     5. n. (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
     6. n. (poetic) year
     7. n. (poetic, in the plural) eyes
     8. adj. feminine plural of solo
     9. n. plural of sola
     solo
          1. adj. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome
          2. adj. only, single, just one, unique, sole
          3. adj. (music) solo
          4. adv. only, just, but, alone, merely
          5. conj. (followed by (m, it, che)) but, only
          6. conj. (preceded by (m, it, se)) if only
          7. conj. (followed by (m, it, se)) only if
          8. n-m. the only one, the only man
è
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of essere; is
     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
appena
     1. adv. barely, hardly
     2. adv. just, recently, newly
     3. adv. as soon as
     4. adv. In the meaning 3, note that non appena has the same meaning as appena.
sorto
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative active of sortire
     2. =Participle. past participle of sorgere (feminine: sorta, masculine plural: sorti, feminine plural: sorte)
     sorgere
          1. v. (intransitive) to rise
          2. v. (intransitive) to arise
          3. n. rising (of the sun etc)
     sortire
          1. v. to produce




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