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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
                manquer à son devoir, manquer à tous ses devoirs - to fail in one's duty, duties
                Il est de mon devoir de protéger le roi. - It is my duty to protect the king.
          2. n-m. exercise, assignment (set for homework)
          3. v. must, to have to, should (as a requirement)
                Les auteurs d'un dictionnaire doivent déterminer au départ les catégories de mots à retenir, en fonction des limites imposées par l'éditeur et du public visé. - The authors of a dictionary have
          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
ma
     1. det. feminine singular of mon
           Ma mère est venue me voir. - My mother came to see me.
Maison
     1. Proper noun. surname, eq=Maison
     2. n-f. house
     3. adj. homemade
           une grande tarte maison - a big home-made pie
           spécialité maison - speciality of the house
     4. adj. (employment) in-house
           La compagnie a un département de traduction maison. - The company has an in-house translation department.
     5. adj. (colloquial intensifier) first-rate, top-notch
           une engueulade maison - a hell of a telling off
se
     1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.
     2. pron.          (to) himself
     3. pron.          (to) herself
     4. pron.          (to) oneself
     5. pron.          (to) itself
     6. pron.          (to) themselves
     7. pron.          (to) each other
     8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.)
           Je suis partie à la chasse et faut vous autres se comportes bien. - I'm going hunting and y'all need to behave yourselves.
trouve
     1. v. first-person singular present of trouver
     2. v. third-person singular present of trouver
     3. v. second-person singular imperative of trouver
     trouver
          1. v. to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one
                Quand est-ce qu'elle a trouvé les clés ? - When did she find the keys?
          2. v. to find (something to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so)
                Je vous trouve si jolie. - I find you so pretty.
          3. v. to find oneself (at a place or in a situation)
          4. v. to be found, to be situated, to be
                La boulangerie se trouve en face du cinéma. - The bakery is found opposite the cinema.
          5. v. (impersonal, reflexive, se trouver) to be the case, to turn out (that)
                Il se trouve que je passe près de chez vous. - I happen to be heading past your place.
un
     1. art. an, a
     2. num. number box, fr
     3. num. one
     4. pron. one, someone
     5. n-m. one (the number or figure)
lac
     1. n-m. lake
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