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Sentence

Il mio cane è un pastore tedesco.

Translation

My dog is a German shepherd.



Analysis


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
cane
     1. n-m. dog, male dog
     2. n-m. (firearms) hammer
     3. adj. (of cold) freezing, biting
     4. adj. (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful
     5. n. plural of it
     6. adj. feminine plural of adjective cano
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
un
     1. art. an, a
     2. n. one
     3. adj. one
     4. pron. one
pastore
     1. n-m. shepherd
     2. n-m. minister, pastor, parson (a protestant minister)
     3. n-m. plural of pastora
tedesco
     1. adj. German; of Germany
     2. n. German language
     3. n-m. (male) German person
pastore tedesco
     1. n. German shepherd, Alsatian




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