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Mon livre est relié en cuir.

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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".)
livre
     1. n-m. book
     2. n-f. pound (unit of weight)
     3. n-f.          (Europe, informal) metrical pound, half a kilogramme, 500 g
     4. n-f.          (North America) imperial pound ≈ 454 g
     5. n-f.          (historical) various values between 300 and 600 g
     6. n-f. pound (unit of currency)
     7. n-f. (Louisiana) grade (level)
     8. v. first-person singular present of livrer
     9. v. third-person singular present of livrer
     10. v. second-person singular imperative of livrer
     livrer
          1. v. to deliver (a package, merchandise etc.)
          2. v. to hand over, deliver (someone to an enemy, police, etc.)
          3. v. to betray
          4. v. to give away (a secret etc.); to confide, reveal, drop (a hint)
          5. v. abandon oneself, give oneself over + à (object) = to
          6. v. to practise (a sport); be engaged in (a job, research); set up (an enquiry) + à (object) = to
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
relié
     1. Participle. past participle of relier
     relier
          1. v. to connect, link, join, relate to
          2. v. to bind (as a book)
          3. v. to hoop together (as a barrel)
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.
cuir
     1. n-m. leather




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