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Il est mignon de mettre un chat dans un seau.

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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
mignon
     1. adj. cute (of a baby, an animal, etc.)
     2. adj. cute (sexually attractive)
     3. n-m. a small pastry
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
mettre
     1. v. to put; to place
     2. v. to put on
     3. v. to set (to lay a table)
     4. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to start (+ à) (something / doing something), to get around to doing something
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)
chat
     1. n-m. cat (feline)
     2. n-m. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
     3. n-m. tag, tig (children’s game)
     4. n-m. (Internet) chat (online discussion)
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
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)
seau
     1. n-m. pail, bucket




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