c'est |
1. contraction. it is (used to define the preceding word) |
2. contraction. it is (used to introduce a focus) |
3. contraction. this is |
à |
1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː. |
2. prep. to (destination) |
3. prep. to (until) |
4. prep. on the, to (some directions) |
5. prep. at (said of a particular time) |
6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place) |
7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations |
8. prep. from (origin) |
9. prep. of (belonging to) |
10. prep. till, until (used in farewells) |
11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with |
12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for |
13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed) |
14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective |
15. prep. by |
16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number) |
17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb. |
18. prep. with |
elle |
1. pron. she |
2. pron. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun) |
3. pron. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers |
sera |
1. v. third-person singular future indicative of être |
serait |
1. v. third-person singular conditional of être |
soit |
1. conj. or, meaning, that is to say |
2. conj. either ... or |
3. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of être |
4. v. (math) let be |
5. interj. OK; granted; so be it |