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La chiesa era gremita, dovettero restare fuori.

Translation

He church was crowded, they had to stay outside.



Analysis


La
     1. pron. (formal) alternative case form of la (you)
     2. art. the
     3. pron. (accusative) her, it
     4. pron. (accusative, formal) you (term of respect)
     5. n. (music) la (musical note)
     6. n. (music) A (musical note and scale)
chiesa
     1. n. church
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
gremita
     1. adj. feminine singular of gremito
     gremito
          1. adj. crammed or packed (with)
          2. v. past participle of gremire (feminine: gremita, masculine plural: gremiti, feminine plural: gremite)
dovettero
     1. v. third-person plural past historic of dovere
     dovere
          1. v. to owe
          2. v. (auxiliary) to have to do something (must)
          3. n. duty
restare
     1. v. (intransitive) to stay
     2. v. (intransitive) to remain
fuori
     1. adv. out, outside
     2. adv. outdoors
     3. prep. out, outside




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