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María se está enamorando de Juan.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

Maria is falling in love with Juan.



Analysis


María
     1. Proper noun. given name, female, eq=Mary, from=Hebrew
     2. Proper noun. Mary; Miriam (biblical character)
     3. Proper noun. surname, from=matronymics
     4. n-f. magpie (bird)
     5. n-f. (historical) (Former coin of Spain in the 17th century, equivalent to 12 reales de vellón)
     6. n-f. Marie biscuit
     7. n-f. (colloquial) doss subject (UK); gut course (US, in college)
     8. n-f. (colloquial) housewife
     9. n-f. (colloquial) uncultured woman
     10. n-f. (Mexico, colloquial) (Indian immigrant from the countryside to Mexico City)
     11. n-f. clipping of marihuana, t=marijuana
se
     1. pron. (third person (also used for usted and ustedes) reflexive direct or indirect object) oneself, himself, herself, itself, yourself; each other; one another
     2. pron. (used to convey the meaning of the English passive voice in the third person and with) usted and ustedes
     3. pron. (used instead of indirect object pronouns) le and les (before the direct object pronouns lo, la, los, or las)
     4. v. misspelling of sé
está
     1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of estar
     estar
          1. v. to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)
          2. v. to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          3. v. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
          4. v. to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)
          5. v. to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          6. v. to be to be done, to be (still) undone:
          7. v. to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)
enamorando
     1. v. gerund of enamorar
     enamorar
          1. v. to enamor
          2. v. to fall in love
de
     1. prep. of; 's; (used after the thing owned and before the owner)
     2. prep. from (with the source or provenance of or at)
     3. prep. of (expressing composition, substance)
     4. prep. about (concerning; with regard to)
     5. prep. of, from (indicating cause)
     6. prep. of (indicates a quality or characteristic)
     7. prep. from (with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at)
     8. prep. of (indicates the subject or cause of the adjective)
     9. prep. from (with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of)
     10. prep. than (in certain phrases)
     11. prep. (used to construct compound nouns (with attributive nouns))
     12. prep. (followed by the infinitive) (indicates a conditional desire)
     13. prep. indicates a time of day or period of someone's life
     14. prep. (after a noun and before a verb) (indicates the purpose of an object)
Juan
     1. Proper noun. John (Biblical character)
     2. Proper noun. given name, male, eq1=John, eq2=Sean
     3. Proper noun. John (book of the New Testament)




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