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Sentence

Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.

Translation

Young people drink alcohol to be cool.



Analysis


les
     1. art. plural of le: the
     2. art. plural of la: the
     3. pron. plural of le: them
     4. pron. plural of la: them
jeunes
     1. adj. plural of jeune
     2. n. plural of jeune
     jeune
          1. adj. young
          2. n. youth, a young person
boivent
     1. v. third-person plural present of boire
     boire
          1. v. to drink
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
de le
     1. art. (Louisiana French) Alternative form of du, "of the", some
alcool
     1. n-m. alcohol, especially domestic, medical, methylated spirits
     2. n-m. spirits, hard liquor (strong alcoholic beverage, excludes wine, cider, beer)
pour
     1. prep. for (meant for, intended for) (followed by a noun or pronoun)
     2. prep. for (in support of)
     3. prep. for (as a consequence for)
     4. prep. for (an intended destination)
     5. prep. to (to bring about an intended result) (followed by a verb in the infinitive)
     6. prep. for, to (according to)
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
cool
     1. adj. cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
     2. interj. cool! great!




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