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Ce malade ne trouve goût à rien.

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ce
     1. det. this, that
     2. pron. (subject of être, with predicative adjectives or relative clauses, singular only) it, this, that (see § Usage notes, below)
     3. pron. (subject of être, with predicate nouns) he, she, it, this, that
malade
     1. adj. ill, unwell, sick
     2. adj. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
     3. n. an ill or sick person; a patient
     4. n. (informal) someone who is crazy; a nutcase
     5. n. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
ne
     1. part. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)
     2. part. not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
     3. part. (Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-
     4. part. In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative
trouve
     1. v. first-person singular present of trouver
     2. v. third-person singular present of trouver
     3. v. second-person singular imperative of trouver
     trouver
          1. v. to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one
          2. v. to find (something to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so)
          3. v. to find oneself (at a place or in a situation)
          4. v. to be found, to be situated, to be
          5. v. (impersonal, reflexive, se trouver) to be the case, to turn out (that)
goût
     1. n-m. taste, flavour
     2. n-m. taste, discrimination
     3. n-m. taste (sense)
     4. n-m. appetite
     5. n-m. smell, scent, odor
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
rien
     1. pron. nothing
     2. n-m. a nothing




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