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enfin
     1. adv. finally; in the end
     2. adv. at last, finally
     3. adv. in fact; indeed
     4. adv. ng, Introduces a contradiction, objection, limitation or correction of what has just been stated.
           (parasyn, du moins, néanmoins, plutôt, toutefois)
           Il sait ce qu'il doit faire, enfin c'est ce que j'espère. - He knows what he has to do, or so I hope.
     5. interj. at last, finally, about time!
il
     1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
           Il est parti. - He left.
     2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
           Je cherche mon livre. Où est-il ? - I'm looking for my book. Where is it?
     3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it
           Il pleut. - It’s raining.
verra
     1. v. third-person singular future of voir
           On verra. - We'll see.
     2. v. third-person singular past historic of verrer
     voir
          1. v. to see (visually)
                Je vois ma mère là-bas. - I see my mother over there.
                On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici. - One doesn't often see snow around here.
          2. v. to see (to understand)
                Tu vois que tu avais tort ? - Do you see that you were wrong?
          3. v. to see (to visit, to go and see)
          4. adv. (Louisiana French) please (used to mark the imperative)
                Viens voir ici. - Come here please.
comment
     1. adv. how
           Comment te sens-tu ? - How do you feel?
je
     1. pron. I
sais
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of savoir
     2. v. second-person singular present indicative of savoir
     savoir
          1. v. to know (something)
                Savais-tu qu'il parle si bien l'anglais? - Did you know that he speaks English so well?
                Comment savait-il que j'étais là? - How did he know that I was there?
                Il est difficile de savoir si elle ment. - It's difficult to know if she's lying.
                Il tire cette approche en inventant une situation initiale, dans laquelle on interrogerait les individus sur la forme qu'ils voudraient d'une société sans qu'ils sachent quelle place ils y aura
                Difficile à savoir (expression; compare Difficile à dire, voir, faire)
          2. v. to know how (to do something)
                Savez-vous nager? - Do you know how to swim?
          3. v. to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative or interrogative conditional; used in the positive in Belgium)
                Il ne saurait tarder que... - It cannot/will not be long before...
          4. v. to find out
                Nous devons savoir pourquoi il a fait ça. - We have to find out why he did this.
          5. n-m. knowledge
tourner
     1. v. to turn (left, right etc.)
     2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients)
     3. v. to tour, to go on tour
     4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film
     5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
           Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur. - To run a program on one's computer.
     6. v. to lathe
une
     1. num. feminine singular of un
     2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article)
     3. n-f. front page (of a publication)
lettre
     1. n-f. letter (written character)
     2. n-f. letter (written message)
     3. n-f. (figuratively) the literal meaning, the plain meaning of something
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