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Où est-il? Il dort dans son lit.

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     1. adv. where (interrogative)
     2. adv. where (relative pronoun)
     3. adv. at that time; when
     4. adv. (poetic) whither, to where
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
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
Il
dort
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of dormir
     dormir
          1. v. to sleep
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
son
     1. n-m. sound
     2. det. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel)
     3. n-m. bran
lit
     1. n-m. bed
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of lire
     lire
          1. v. to read
          2. v. to be read
          3. n-f. lira (unit of currency)




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