Lexis Rex Home



French Sentence of the Day

Sentence

Il reste deux tâches à finir.

Translation

There are two things left to finish.



Analysis


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
reste
     1. n-m. rest, remainder
     2. n-m. a trace or vestige which remains
     3. n-m. (mathematics) remainder
     4. v. first-person singular present of rester
     5. v. third-person singular present of rester
     6. v. second-person singular imperative of rester
     rester
          1. v. to stay
          2. v. to remain, be left over
          3. v. to stay, to remain (to continue to have a particular quality)
          4. v. (rare) to rest
          5. v. (Louisiana French, Canada) to live
deux
     1. num. two
tâches
     1. n. plural of tâche
     2. v. second-person singular present of tâcher
     tâcher
          1. v. to try, attempt, endeavour (to do something)
          2. v. to ensure (que that, + subjunctive)
     tâche
          1. n-f. task
          2. v. first-person singular present of tâcher
          3. v. third-person singular present of tâcher
          4. v. second-person singular imperative of tâcher
à
     1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː.
     2. prep. to (destination)
     3. prep. to (until)
     4. prep. on the, to (some directions)
     5. prep. at (said of a particular time)
     6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place)
     7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations
     8. prep. from (origin)
     9. prep. of (belonging to)
     10. prep. till, until (used in farewells)
     11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with
     12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for
     13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed)
     14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective
     15. prep. by
     16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number)
     17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb.
     18. prep. with
finir
     1. v. to finish, end, complete




Review Previous Sentences






Subscribe to Sentence of the Day
Email: