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Un secolo fa, in Italia c'era la monarchia

Translation

One century ago there was the monarchy in Italy



Analysis


un
     1. art. an, a
     2. n. one
     3. adj. one
     4. pron. one
secolo
     1. n. century (100 years)
     2. n. age, time, era
     3. n. ages (a very long time)
     4. n. worldly, secular life
fa
     1. adv. ago
     2. n. (music) fa (musical note)
     3. n. F (musical note or key)
     4. v. third-person singular present indicative of fare
     5. v. second-person singular imperative of fare
     fare
          1. v. to do
          2. v. to make
          3. v. to act
          4. v. to get someone to be something
          5. n. manner, way
in
     1. prep. in
     2. prep. to
     3. prep. into
     4. prep. by
     5. prep. on
Italia
     1. Italy
c'era
     1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of esserci; there was; there used to be
     ci
          1. pron. us
          2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) ourselves; each other
          3. pron. to us
          4. pron. (ngd, Replaces the indefinite personal pronoun m, it, si, , one) before reflexive m, it, si, , oneself; one
          5. pron. it, to it
          6. adv. to there, here, there
          7. adv. ngd, Forms part of many verbs:
          8. n-m. The Twi language family.
     era
          1. n. age, epoch, period
          2. n. (geology) era
          3. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
     essere
          1. v. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be, to stay
          2. v. (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to
          3. v. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed
          4. n. being
ci era
     essersi
          1. v. (reflexive) To exist; to be
la
     1. art. the
     2. pron. (accusative) her, it
     3. pron. (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)
     4. n. (music) la (musical note)
     5. n. (music) A (musical note and scale)
monarchia
     1. n. monarchy




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