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Ce train dessert les grandes villes de la région.

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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
train
     1. n-m. train (rail mounted vehicle)
     2. n-m. pace
     3. n-m. (Louisiana French) noise
dessert
     1. n-m. dessert, pudding
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of desservir
     desservir
          1. v. (religion, transitive) to serve (be the pastor of a church)
          2. v. (of a transit service or other public service or similar) to serve, to have as or in its catchment area
          3. v. to clear, clear away (e.g. a table)
          4. v. to do a disservice, to perform ill offices (to someone)
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
grandes
     1. adj. feminine plural of grand
     grand
          1. adj. big, great, grand
          2. adj. tall
          3. adj. grown up, big
          4. adj. (usually capitalized) great, an honorific title
          5. adj. great; big fat; an intensifier
          6. adj. extensive, large
          7. n-m. grown-up
villes
     1. n. plural of ville
     ville
          1. n-f. town, city
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
la
     1. art. the (definite article)
     2. pron. her, it (direct object)
     3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A'
de la
     1. art. of the
     2. art. some; the feminine partitive article
région
     1. n-f. region; area
     2. n-f. a political subdivision of France and some other Francophone countries, bigger than a département




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