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Sentence

Il cane gli saltò in braccio

Translation

The dog jumped in his arms



Analysis


il
     1. art. the
cane
     1. n-m. dog, male dog
     2. n-m. (firearms) hammer
     3. adj. (of cold) freezing, biting
     4. adj. (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful
     5. n. plural of it
     6. adj. feminine plural of adjective cano
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
saltò
     1. v. third-person singular past historic of saltare
     saltare
          1. v. (intransitive) to jump, to leap, to spring
          2. v. (intransitive) to explode, to blow up
          3. v. (intransitive) to blow (up), to fuse
          4. v. (intransitive) to come off, to snap, to break
          5. v. (intransitive) to fail, to be cancelled
          6. v. (intransitive) to dance
          7. v. to jump, to jump over, to leap, to hurdle, to clear
          8. v. (transitive, figuratively) to jump, to skip, to leave out, to cut
          9. v. (transitive, in recipes) to sauté, to toss
in
     1. prep. in
     2. prep. to
     3. prep. into
     4. prep. by
     5. prep. on
braccio
     1. n. (anatomy) arm
     2. n. (unit of measure, nautical) fathom
     3. n. (geography) branch, arm of the sea
     4. n. (mechanics) arm (of crane etc.)
     5. n. branch (of candleholder etc.)
     6. v. first-person singular present indicative of bracciare
     bracciare
          1. v. (transitive, nautical) to brace




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