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Il est cinq heures et demie.

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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
est
     1. adj. east
     2. n-m. east
     3. v. third-person singular present 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
cinq
     1. num. five
heures
     1. n. plural of heure
     heure
          1. n-f. hour, time
          2. n-f. o'clock
et
     1. conj. and
demie
     1. adj. feminine singular of demi
     2. n-f. (colloquial) semifinal, semi-final
     demi
          1. adj. half
          2. n. number box, 2
          3. n-m. half (fraction)
          4. n-m. (used in time) half (half-hour)
          5. n-m. (Polynesia, France) a person of multiracial descent, usually a person with French and other non-European origin; mixed-race
          6. n-m. a glass of beer of 250 ml volume
          7. n-m. (Quebec, real estate) bathroom




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