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Sentence

È un'auto vecchia, ma ancora molto ben funzionante

Translation

It is an old car, but it still works very well.



Analysis


È
     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
un'auto
     un
          1. art. an, a
          2. n. one
          3. adj. one
          4. pron. one
     auto
          1. n. car
vecchia
     1. adj. feminine singular of vecchio
     2. n-f. An old woman.
     vecchio
          1. adj. old, outworn
          2. adj. old-fashioned, out-of-date
          3. adj. mature, ripe
          4. n-m. An old man.
          5. n. only used in, vecchio marino
ma
     1. conj. but
     2. n. abbreviation of mamma
     3. interj. (informal, emphatic) Indicates emotion or emphasis.
     4. interj. (informal) Used to introduce a new topic or a question.
ancora
     1. adv. still
     2. adv. again
     3. adv. more
     4. adv. (after the adverb (m, it, non)) yet, not yet
     5. adv. even
     6. n. (nautical) anchor (tool to moor a vessel into sea bottom)
     7. v. third-person singular present indicative of ancorare
     8. v. second-person singular imperative of ancorare
molto
     1. adv. much, very much, a lot
     2. adv. (with an adverb or adjective) very, really, very much
     3. adv. (in expressions of comparison) much, far, a lot
     4. adv. long, a long time
     5. adj. in the plural many, a lot of, lots of
     6. adj. great, much, very
     7. pron. in the plural many, many people
     8. n. the many
     9. n. the large part
     10. n. a great deal
ben
     1. adv. apocopic form of bene
funzionante
     1. v. present participle of funzionare
     2. adj. functioning
     funzionare
          1. v. to work, to function




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