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Les malades défilaient dans mon bureau toute la journée.

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les
     1. art. plural of le: the
     2. art. plural of la: the
     3. pron. plural of le: them
     4. pron. plural of la: them
malades
     1. adj. plural of malade
     2. n. plural of malade
     malade
          1. adj. ill, unwell, sick
          2. adj. (informal) Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
          3. n. an ill or sick person; a patient
          4. n. (informal) someone who is crazy; a nutcase
          5. n. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
défilaient
     1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative of défiler
     défiler
          1. v. to parade or march
          2. v. to appear one after the other
          3. v. to unfold; to happen
          4. v. (computing, intransitive) to scroll
          5. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to slip away or off
          6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to weasel out of something; to cop out
          7. v. to undo thread that has been spun
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
mon
     1. det. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender)
     2. det. Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
bureau
     1. n-m. desk
     2. n-m. office (room)
     3. n-m. ticket office
     4. n-m. the staff of an office
     5. n-m. office; an administrative unit
     6. n-m. (obsolete) frieze (coarse woolen cloth)
     7. n-m. (computing, GUI) desktop (on-screen background)
toute
     1. adv. feminine singular of tout
     2. det. feminine singular of tout
     tout
          1. adv. all
          2. det. all
          3. n-m. whole, entirety, total
          4. pron. everything
la
     1. art. the (definite article)
     2. pron. her, it (direct object)
     3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A'
journée
     1. n-f. day
     2. n-f. daytime




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