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Ieri è morto il mio amico Giovanni.

Translation

My friend John died yesterday.



Analysis


ieri
     1. adv. yesterday
     2. n. yesterday
è
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of essere; is
     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
morto
     1. adj. (literal and figurative) dead
     2. adj. (by extension, colloquial, of a body part) dead (experiencing pins and needles)
     3. adj. (figurative, of a time period) past
     4. n-m. dead man
     5. n-m. corpse, dead body
     6. n-m. (figurative) An inactive or idle person.
     7. n-m. (card games) A fourth, absent player.
     8. n-m.          (bridge) dummy
     9. Participle. past participle of morire; died. (feminine: morta, masculine plural: morti, feminine plural: morte)
     morire
          1. n. death
          2. v. (intransitive) to die
il
     1. art. the
mio
     1. pron. (used attributively) my; of mine
     2. pron. (used predicatively) mine
     3. pron. (used substantively) mine; the thing belonging to me
amico
     1. n-m. friend, companion, partner
     2. n-m. boyfriend
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of amicarsi
     amicarsi
          1. v. (reflexive) To make friends (with)
Giovanni




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