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Sentence

Ce ne sono due.

Translation

There are two (of them).



Analysis


ce
     1. pron. alternative form of ci us
     2. adv. here
ne
     1. adv. from there
     2. pron. about it
     3. pron. of it
     4. pron. of them (sometimes not translated in English)
     5. contraction. apocopic form of it nel
sono
     1. v. first-person singular present of essere; (I) [[am]], [[I'm]].
     2. v. third-person plural present of essere; (they) [[are]], [[they're]].
     3. n. alternative form of suono
     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
due
     1. num. (cln, it, cardinal numbers) two
     2. adj. two
     3. n. two
     4. n. (following the article (m, it, le)) two o'clock (a.m. or p.m.)




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