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La tournée en France de ce groupe de rock est très attendue.

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la
     1. art. the (definite article)
     2. pron. her, it (direct object)
     3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A'
tournée
     1. Participle. feminine singular of tourné
     2. n-f. tour (of politician, businessman, artist etc.), round (of postman)
     3. n-f. round (of drinks)
     tourner
          1. v. to turn (left, right etc.)
          2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients)
          3. v. to tour, to go on tour
          4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film
          5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
          6. v. to lathe
en
     1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes)
     3. prep. by (used to indicate means)
     4. prep. as
     5. prep. at (used to describe an ability)
     6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition)
     7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years))
     8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while
     9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something
     10. prep. in (used to describe color)
     11. prep. in (used to describe feelings)
     12. prep. in (as part of something)
     13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.))
     14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici.
France
     1. Proper noun. France (a country in Western Europe)
     2. Proper noun. given name, female
     3. Proper noun. surname, French
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
ce
     1. det. this, that
     2. pron. (subject of être, with predicative adjectives or relative clauses, singular only) it, this, that (see § Usage notes, below)
     3. pron. (subject of être, with predicate nouns) he, she, it, this, that
groupe
     1. n-m. group
     grouper
          1. v. to group (to put together to form a group)
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
rock
     1. n-m. rock (style of music)
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
très
     1. adv. very
attendue
     1. Participle. feminine singular of attendu
     attendre
          1. v. to wait for, to await
          2. v. to expect
          3. v. (Louisiana French) Alternative form of entendre, to hear




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