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Ma vie a défilé devant mes yeux.

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ma
     1. det. feminine singular of mon
vie
     1. n-f. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
     2. n-f. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
     3. n-f. biography, life
     4. n-f. life, lifeforms
     5. n-f. cost of living
     6. n-f. attn, frWikt has even more senses than this
     7. n-f. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)
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
défilé
     1. Participle. past participle of défiler
     2. n-m. parade; procession
     3. n-m. march in protest
     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
devant
     1. prep. confronted with, faced with
     2. prep. in front of, before
     3. prep. outside
     4. n-m. front
     5. Participle. present participle of devoir
     devoir
          1. n-m. duty
          2. n-m. exercise, assignment (set for homework)
          3. v. must, to have to, should (as a requirement)
          4. v.          (present) must
          5. v.          (conditional) should
          6. v. must, to do or have with certainty
          7. v. to owe (money, obligation and etc)
          8. v. (literary, intransitive, in imperfect subjunctive, with inversion of subject) (even) though it be necessary (+ infinitive)
          9. v. to have a duty to
mes
     1. det. my (when referring to a plural noun)
     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".)
yeux
     1. n. plural of œil, eyes
     œil
          1. n-m. (anatomy) eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see
          2. n-m. (plural œils) glyph, rendering of a single character
          3. n-m. (plural œils) eye (of a needle)




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