| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| la |
| 1. art. the (definite article) |
| 2. pron. her, it (direct object) |
| 3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' |
| de la |
| 1. art. of the |
| 2. art. some; the feminine partitive article |
| bière |
| 1. n-f. beer |
| 2. n-f. bier |
| 3. n-f. coffin |
| 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 |
| boire |
| 1. v. to drink |
