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Sentence

Mon ancien petit ami m'a plaquée.

Translation

My ex-boyfriend ditched me.



Analysis


mon
     1. det. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender)
     2. det. Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
ancien
     1. adj. (always placed before the noun) old, former, ex- (no longer current)
     2. adj. (usually placed after the noun) ancient (very old)
     3. n-m. an old person
petit
     1. adj. small
     2. adj. little
     3. adj. petty
     4. n-m. small one (anything that is small)
     5. n-m. little one (anything that is little)
     6. n-m. little one; child (of humans or other animals)
     7. n-m. the young (of a species)
ami
     1. n-m. friend (one who is affectionately attached to another)
petit ami
     1. n-m. boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment)
me
     1. pron. (direct object) me
     2. pron. (indirect object) to me
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
plaquée
     1. Participle. feminine singular of plaqué
     plaquer
          1. v. to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)
          2. v. (rugby) to tackle
          3. v. (martial arts) to grapple
          4. v. (colloquial) to leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone




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