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Il paese era un mortorio ed eravamo praticamente gli unici turisti in giro.

Translation

The village was like a morgue and we were just about the only tourists around.



Analysis


il
     1. art. the
paese
     1. n. country (nation)
     2. n. village
     3. n. town
era
     1. n. age, epoch, period
     2. n. (geology) era
     3. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of essere
     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
mortorio
     1. n. (literary) funeral
     2. n. (by extension) (like a) morgue or funeral
ed
     1. conj. alternative form of e and - (before a vowel) and
eravamo
     1. v. first-person plural imperfect indicative of essere
     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
praticamente
     1. adv. practically (all senses)
     2. adv. almost
gli
     1. art. (Form of the article (m, it, i, , the) used before a vowel, it, dei, , gods); the
     2. pron. (dative) him, to him; it; to it
     3. pron. (dative, informal) her, to her
     4. pron. (dative) them, to them
unici
     1. adj. masculine plural of adjective unico
     2. n. plural of unico
turisti
     1. n. plural of turista
     turista
          1. n. tourist (male)
          2. n. tourist (female)
in
     1. prep. in
     2. prep. to
     3. prep. into
     4. prep. by
     5. prep. on
giro
     1. n. turn, twist, rotation, revolution
     2. n. detour
     3. n. lap (of a race)
     4. n. tour, trip, stroll
     5. n. (in the plural) rounds (of a postman etc)
     6. n. period, space, course, time, run
     7. n. ring (illicit)
     8. n. turn, round
     9. n. circulation (of money)
     10. n. row (of knitting)
     11. v. first-person singular present indicative of girare
     girare
          1. v. to turn, stir, wind
          2. v. to tour, travel, go round
          3. v. to pass
          4. v. to endorse, transfer
          5. v. (transitive, cinema) to shoot, film, act in
          6. v. (intransitive) to turn, spin, revolve, run
          7. v. (intransitive) to be on the go, ramble, roam, wander, go around




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