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ma
     1. det. feminine singular of mon
           Ma mère est venue me voir. - My mother came to see me.
belle
     1. adj. feminine singular of beau
     2. n-f. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
     3. n-f. (Louisiana French) girlfriend
     beau
          1. adj. handsome, fine, attractive
          2. adj. nice
          3. adj. fair (weather)
                Il fait beau. - It is nice out.
          4. n-m. (Louisiana French) boyfriend
          5. adv. in vain
                J'ai beau trimer - No matter how hard I try / Try as I might
mère
     1. n-f. mother
lui
     1. pron. him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject
           J'habitais avec lui. - I was living with him.
           C'est lui qui a dit cela. - It was him who said that.
           Lui, il n'en sait rien. - He doesn't know anything about it.
     2. pron. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object
           Je lui ai donné le livre. - I gave the book to him/her.
     3. Participle. past participle of luire
doit
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to
           Il doit aller en France un jour. - He must go to France one day.
     Must
     devoir
          1. n-m. duty
                manquer à son devoir, manquer à tous ses devoirs - to fail in one's duty, duties
                Il est de mon devoir de protéger le roi. - It is my duty to protect the king.
          2. n-m. exercise, assignment (set for homework)
          3. v. must, to have to, should (as a requirement)
                Les auteurs d'un dictionnaire doivent déterminer au départ les catégories de mots à retenir, en fonction des limites imposées par l'éditeur et du public visé. - The authors of a dictionary have
          4. v.          (present) must
          5. v.          (conditional) should
          6. v. must, to do or have with certainty
          7. v. to owe (money, obligation and etc)
          8. v. (literary, intransitive, in imperfect subjunctive, with inversion of subject) (even) though it be necessary (+ infinitive)
          9. v. to have a duty to
six
     1. num. six
cent
     1. n-m. (money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)
vingt
     1. num. twenty
livres
     1. n. plural of livre
     2. v. second-person singular present of livrer
     livrer
          1. v. to deliver (a package, merchandise etc.)
          2. v. to hand over, deliver (someone to an enemy, police, etc.)
          3. v. to betray
          4. v. to give away (a secret etc.); to confide, reveal, drop (a hint)
          5. v. abandon oneself, give oneself over + à (object) = to
          6. v. to practise (a sport); be engaged in (a job, research); set up (an enquiry) + à (object) = to
     livre
          1. n-m. book
          2. n-f. pound (unit of weight)
          3. n-f.          (Europe, informal) metrical pound, half a kilogramme, 500 g
          4. n-f.          (North America) imperial pound ≈ 454 g
          5. n-f.          (historical) various values between 300 and 600 g
          6. n-f. pound (unit of currency)
          7. n-f. (Louisiana) grade (level)
          8. v. first-person singular present of livrer
          9. v. third-person singular present of livrer
          10. v. second-person singular imperative of livrer
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