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Faites entrer le ballon dans le but en lui donnant un coup de pied

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faites
     1. v. second-person plural present indicative of faire
     2. v. second-person plural imperative of faire
     3. Participle. feminine plural of fait
entrer
     1. v. to enter
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
ballon
     1. n-m. (inflatable) ball
     2. n-m.          beachball
     3. n-m. balloon
     4. n-m. (chemistry) round-bottom flask
dans
     1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes)
     3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time)
     4. prep. (with respect to time) during
     5. prep. out of, from
     6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of
     7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les)
     8. n. plural of dan
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
but
     1. n-m. aim
     2. n-m. goal (result one is attempting to achieve)
     3. n-m. (sports) goal (in the place, act, or point sense)
     4. v. third-person singular past historic of boire
     boire
          1. v. to drink
en
     1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes)
     3. prep. by (used to indicate means)
     4. prep. as
     5. prep. at (used to describe an ability)
     6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition)
     7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years))
     8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while
     9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something
     10. prep. in (used to describe color)
     11. prep. in (used to describe feelings)
     12. prep. in (as part of something)
     13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.))
     14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici.
lui
     1. pron. him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject
     2. pron. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object
     3. Participle. past participle of luire
donnant
     1. Participle. present participle of donner
     donner
          1. v. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else
          2. v. to donate
          3. v. to come across
un
     1. art. an, a
     2. num. number box, fr
     3. num. one
     4. pron. one, someone
     5. n-m. one (the number or figure)
coup
     1. n-m. blow, hit, strike
     2. n-m.          sound of the action
     3. n-m.          physical consequences of the action (marks)
     4. n-m. (by extension) fast and instantaneous action
     5. n-m. (firearm) load, shot
     6. n-m. bit (small quantity)
     7. n-m. planned action
     8. n-m. (slang) lay
un coup
     1. adv. (colloquial) (used to soften an order)
     2. adv. (colloquial) once, one time.
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
pied
     1. n-m. (anatomy) foot
     2. n-m. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
     3. n-m. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
     4. n-m. (Quebec, etc.) (Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres))
     5. n-m. (poetry) foot
coup de pied
     1. n-m. kick
     2. n-m. hop, skip, and a jump




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