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Con un rapido movimento, evitò la freccia che gli era stata tirata.

Translation

With a quick movement, he avoided the arrow that they shot towards him.



Analysis


con
     1. prep. with, together
     2. prep. (rowing) coxed
un
     1. art. an, a
     2. n. one
     3. adj. one
     4. pron. one
rapido
     1. adj. quick, fast, rapid
movimento
     1. n. movement
     2. n. (music) tempo mark
     3. n. (music, by extension) movement (division of a larger composition)
     4. n. exercise
     5. n. motion
     6. n. bustle
     7. n. clockwork
     8. v. first-person singular present indicative of movimentare
     movimentare
          1. v. to enliven
          2. v. to handle, move
evitò
     1. v. third-person singular past historic of evitare
     evitare
          1. v. to avoid or shy away from
          2. v. to dodge
          3. v. to ward off
la
     1. art. the
     2. pron. (accusative) her, it
     3. pron. (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)
     4. n. (music) la (musical note)
     5. n. (music) A (musical note and scale)
freccia
     1. n. arrow (projectile)
     2. n. arrow (symbol)
     3. n. (automotive) indicator, blinker, trafficator
     frecciare
che
     1. pron. (interrogative) what
     2. pron. (relative) who; whom; which; (ngd, nominative and accusative case)
     3. conj. that
     4. conj. than
     5. conj. when
     6. det. some (informal) A remarkable (some party - che festa - che bambola!)
gli
     1. art. (Form of the article (m, it, i, , the) used before a vowel, it, dei, , gods); the
     2. pron. (dative) him, to him; it; to it
     3. pron. (dative, informal) her, to her
     4. pron. (dative) them, to them
era
     1. n. age, epoch, period
     2. n. (geology) era
     3. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
     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
stata
     1. v. feminine singular past participle of essere
     2. v. feminine singular past participle of stare
     3. v. feminine singular past participle of starsene
tirata
     1. Participle. feminine singular of tirato
     2. n. pull, plug
     3. n. drag or puff (of a cigarette)
     4. n. tirade
     tirato
          1. v. past participle of tirare (feminine: tirata, masculine plural: tirati, feminine plural: tirate)




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