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Sentence

Etes-vous au fait des règles du jeu ?

Translation

Are you au fait with the rules of the game?



Analysis


Etes
vous
     1. pron. the plural personal pronoun in the second person:
     2. pron.          (subject pronoun) you (all).
     3. pron.          (direct object pronoun) you (all).
     4. pron. you, to you (indirect object pronoun):
     5. pron. (formal, polite) plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person:
au
     1. contraction. contraction of à le
     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
     le
          1. art. the (definite article)
          2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
          3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
          4. art. (before units) a, an
          5. pron. (direct object) him, it
          6. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
fait
     1. n-m. fact
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of faire
     3. Participle. past participle of faire
     4. adj. done
     5. adj. cut out
     faire
          1. v. to do
          2. v. to make
          3. v. to say (of a person), to go (of an animal)
          4. v. to make (cause someone or something to do something)
          5. v. to act like (something)
          6. v. (impersonal) to be (of the weather or various situations)
          7. v. (reflexive) to do, to make (oneself)
          8. v. to be, to get (used for a passive action)
          9. v. to ripen (of fruit), to mature
          10. v. to become used to, to get used to
          11. v. (slang) to do (to have sex with)
          12. v. (informal, intransitive) to defecate; (metaphorically) to shit oneself (to be terrified)
          13. v. (reflexive) to become, to get
au fait
     1. adj. au fait + de (object) = with
     2. adv. by the way
des
     1. art. plural of un
     2. art. plural of une
     3. art. plural of du
     4. art. plural of de la
     5. art. plural of de l'
     6. contraction. contraction of de les (of the, from the, some)
     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
     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
     de l'
          1. art. some; the singular prevocalic partitive article
règles
     1. n. plural of règle
     régler
          1. v. to sort out, to settle (a problem, a bill)
          2. v. to set, to adjust
          3. v. to regulate
          4. v. to rule; to put lines on
     règle
          1. n-f. rule, regulation
          2. n-f. rule, period of ruling
          3. n-f. ruler (for measuring length)
          4. n-f. (in plural) period, menstruation
          5. v. first-person singular present of régler
          6. v. third-person singular present of régler
          7. v. second-person singular imperative of régler
du
     1. contraction. contraction of de + le (t=of the)
     2. contraction. , translation=The bulge gives 9nine liters more than the point which corresponds to that of the diameter of the base indicated by the gauge (...)
     3. art. Forms the partitive article.
     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
     le
          1. art. the (definite article)
          2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English.
          3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc.
          4. art. (before units) a, an
          5. pron. (direct object) him, it
          6. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English
jeu
     1. n-m. game (activity performed for amusement)
     2. n-m. play (in a theatre/theater)
     3. n-m. set (of objects that belong together)
     4. n-m. manner of handling a gun
     5. n-m. play (mechanics: a space between two adjacent parts to allow free movement)
     6. n-m. a pipe organ stop
     7. n-m. a hand of playing cards




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