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Ieri ho incontrato uno al bar che mi ha detto di venire da te.

Translation

Yesterday I met someone at the bar who told me to come to you.



Analysis


ieri
     1. adv. yesterday
     2. n. yesterday
ho
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of avere (I have)
     avere
          1. v. to have
          2. v. (auxiliary) to have
          3. n. property, substance
          4. n. (in the plural) belongings
          5. n. credit, assets
          6. n. swag
incontrato
     1. v. past participle of incontrare (feminine: incontrata, masculine plural: incontrati, feminine plural: incontrate)
     incontrare
          1. v. to meet, come across, bump into, run into, find, encounter
          2. v. (transitive, sports) to play, fight
uno
     1. num. one
     2. adj. one
     3. art. an, a
     4. pron. someone, a person
al
     1. contraction. contraction of a il; to the, at the
     2. prep. (cooking, in the singular) with (an ingredient)
     a
          1. prep. in
          2. prep. at
          3. prep. to
          4. prep. Indicates the direct object, mainly to avoid confusion when it, the subject, or both are displaced, or for emphasis
          5. v. misspelling of ha
     il
          1. art. the
bar
     1. n. bar (place serving drinks)
     2. n. café
che
     1. pron. (interrogative) what
     2. pron. (relative) who; whom; which; (ngd, nominative and accusative case)
     3. conj. that
     4. conj. than
     5. conj. when
     6. det. some (informal) A remarkable (some party - che festa - che bambola!)
mi
     1. pron. me
     2. pron. (dative) (to) me
     3. n. (music) The third note, mi.
     4. n. E (musical note or key)
     5. n. mu (Greek letter)
ha
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of avere
     2. interj. ah! (usually ironic or sarcastic)
     avere
          1. v. to have
          2. v. (auxiliary) to have
          3. n. property, substance
          4. n. (in the plural) belongings
          5. n. credit, assets
          6. n. swag
detto
     1. v. past participle of dire (feminine: detta, masculine plural: detti, feminine plural: dette)
     2. v. past participle of dirsi
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of dettare
     4. adj. known as, called
     5. adj. above-mentioned, aforementioned, said
     6. n. saying
     dettare
          1. v. To dictate, prompt
     dire
          1. v. to say, tell
          2. v. to recite
          3. v. to mean
          4. v. to think
          5. v. to admit
di
     1. prep. (ngd, Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner); ’s
     2. prep. from
     3. prep. ’s
     4. prep. than
     5. prep. (ngd, Used in superlative forms); in, of
     6. prep. about, on, concerning
     7. prep. (ngd, Expresses composition); of, made of, in or more often omitted
     8. prep. (followed by an infinitive) to or omitted
     9. prep. (ngd, Used with the definite article in partitive constructions); some
     10. prep. ngd, Used in some expressions in a partitive-like function, often without article.
venire
     1. v. (intransitive) to come, arrive
     2. v. (intransitive) to be (see usage notes)
da
     1. prep. from
     2. prep. at
     3. prep. since
     4. prep. to (implying necessity)
     5. prep. ngd, Used in some adverbial phrases:
     6. prep. like, as
     7. v. misspelling of dà
te
     1. pron. (disjunctive, emphatic) you




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