| il |
| 1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) |
| 2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) |
| 3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it |
| était |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of être |
| 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 |
| sur |
| 1. prep. on, upon |
| 2. prep. on top of |
| 3. prep. from on top of |
| 4. prep. above |
| 5. prep. out of |
| 6. prep. in the case of |
| 7. prep. about, concerning |
| 8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place) |
| 9. adj. sour |
| 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 |
| point |
| 1. n-m. point (small mark) |
| 2. n-m. (sports) point |
| 3. n-m. full stop, period (punctuation mark) |
| 4. n-m. (knitting) stitch pattern |
| 5. n-m. dot (Morse code symbol) |
| 6. adv. (literary, dialectal, usually with "ne") not |
| 7. Participle. past participle of poindre |
| 8. v. third-person singular present indicative of poindre |
| poindre |
| 1. v. to prick, sting |
| 2. v. to sting, afflict (of pain, love etc.) |
| 3. v. to come up (of a plant), peep through |
| 4. v. to break, dawn (of day); to break (of dawn) |
| 5. v. to appear, spring up |
| 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 |
| sur le point de |
| 1. prep. on the brink of; on the verge of, about to, on the point of |
| pleurer |
| 1. v. to cry, to weep |
| 2. v. to mourn |
