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Sentence

Cet enfant a toujours été glouton.

Translation

This child has always been gluttonous.



Analysis


cet
     1. det. this
enfant
     1. n. child (someone who is not yet an adult)
     2. n. child (offspring of any age)
     3. n. son, native (of a place)
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
toujours
     1. adv. always
     2. adv. still
     3. adv. , A man who you might think came straight out of the Renaissance, and who was assassinated in 1975, for reasons which still haven't been elucidated.
été
     1. n-m. summer
     2. Participle. past participle of être
     3. Participle. Louisiana French past participle of aller
     être
          1. v. to be
          2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs)
          3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice)
          4. n-m. being, creature
          5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence
glouton
     1. adj. (of a man or animal) gluttonous; devouring or engulfing one's food greedily
     2. adj. (figuratively) gluttonous; having a great greed toward something
     3. n-m. glutton or wolverine, a mammalian carnivore of the Arctic regions resembling a small bear with a hairy tail
     4. n-m. glutton; a person or animal who eats his food greedily




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