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Macy Gray a traversé bien des épreuves.

Translation

Macy Gray got through a lot of ordeals.



Analysis


Macy
Gray
a
     1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A
     2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she
     3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir
     avoir
          1. n-m. asset, possession
          2. v. to have (to own; to possess)
          3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs)
          4. v. to have (a condition)
          5. v. to have (a measure or age)
          6. v. to have (to trick)
          7. v. to have (to participate in an experience)
          8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive
traversé
     1. Participle. past participle of traverser
     traverser
          1. v. to cross, to go across
bien
     1. adj. good, all right, great
     2. adj. good looking, nice
     3. adv. well
     4. adv. indeed; so
     5. adv. (followed by de, des, or du) a lot (of)
     6. adv. very; really
     7. adv. (in comparisons) much (more, less, better, etc.)
     8. n-m. good as opposed to evil
     9. n-m. a commodity, a good
     10. n-m. a possession
des
     1. art. plural of un
     2. art. plural of une
     3. art. plural of du
     4. art. plural of de la
     5. art. plural of de l'
     6. contraction. contraction of de les (of the, from the, some)
     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
     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
     de l'
          1. art. some; the singular prevocalic partitive article
épreuves
     1. n. plural of épreuve
     épreuve
          1. n-f. test
          2. n-f. ordeal, trial
          3. n-f. (sports) event, heat
          4. n-f. (typography, coinage) proof
          5. n-f. (photography) print
          6. n-f. (film, television, in the plural) rushes




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