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 |
ne |
1. part. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes) |
2. part. not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below) |
3. part. (Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so- |
4. part. In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative |
y |
1. pron. there (at a place) |
2. pron. there, thither (to there) |
3. pron. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à. |
4. pron. With verbs: see for verbs which use this structure. |
5. pron. With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology. |
6. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) he: Alternative form of il |
7. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) they: Alternative form of ils |
8. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) they: Alternative form of elles |
a |
1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A |
2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir |
avoir |
1. n-m. asset, possession |
2. v. to have (to own; to possess) |
3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) |
4. v. to have (a condition) |
5. v. to have (a measure or age) |
6. v. to have (to trick) |
7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) |
8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive |
il y a |
1. v. singular present indicative of y avoir: there is, there are |
2. prep. ago |
y a |
1. v. (colloquial)contraction of il y a |
y avoir |
1. v. (impersonal, transitive) there be |
personne |
1. n-f. person |
2. pron. (with ne) no one, nobody |
3. pron. anyone |
ici |
1. adv. here |