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Au pied du hêtre, j'ai trouvé un oisillon qui est tombé de son nid.

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au
     1. contraction. contraction of à le
pied
     1. n-m. (anatomy) foot
     2. n-m. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
     3. n-m. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
     4. n-m. (Quebec, etc.) (Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres))
     5. n-m. (poetry) foot
au pied
     1. interj. to heel!
du
     1. contraction. contraction of de + le (t=of the)
     2. contraction. , translation=The bulge gives 9nine liters more than the point which corresponds to that of the diameter of the base indicated by the gauge (...)
     3. art. Forms the partitive article.
     de
          1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
          2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
          3. prep. from (used to indicate origin)
          4. prep. of (indicates an amount)
          5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
          6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
          7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
          8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change)
          9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.
          10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.
          11. n-f. abbreviation of dame
     le
          1. art. the (definite article)
          2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
          3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
          4. art. (before units) a, an
          5. pron. (direct object) him, it
          6. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
hêtre
     1. n-m. beech
     2. n-m. beechwood
je
     1. pron. I
ai
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of avoir
trouvé
     1. Participle. past participle of trouver
     2. adj. found, being to object of a find(ing)
     3. adj. invented, thought-up, imagined
     4. adj. found and somehow taken in, as said of a foundling
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)
oisillon
     1. n-m. young bird; chick, fledgling, baby bird, little bird
qui
     1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom
     2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that
     3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if
est
     1. adj. east
     2. n-m. east
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of être
     être
          1. v. to be
          2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs)
          3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice)
          4. n-m. being, creature
          5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence
tombé
     1. Participle. past participle of tomber
     tomber
          1. v. to fall
          2. v. to come down
          3. v. (indtr, sur) to bump into, to come across; to be received by (when making a telephone call)
          4. v. (in idioms) to become, to get
de
     1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
     2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
     3. prep. from (used to indicate origin)
     4. prep. of (indicates an amount)
     5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
     6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
     7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
     8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change)
     9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.
     10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.
     11. n-f. abbreviation of dame
son
     1. n-m. sound
     2. det. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel)
     3. n-m. bran
nid
     1. n-m. nest
     2. n-m. (military) Some people or dangerous things, hidden or not




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