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Ele dirigia o carro de seu pai.

Translation

He drove his father's car.



Analysis


ele
     1. pron. third-person masculine singular nominative personal pronoun; he; it
     2. pron. third-person masculine singular prepositional pronoun; him; it
     3. pron. (Brazil) third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used in all positions; he; him; it
dirigia
     1. v. verb form of dirigir
     dirigir
          1. v. to drive (a vehicle)
          2. v. to drive any vehicle
          3. v. to command, to rule, to control (something)
          4. v. to direct a film
          5. v. to head (move in a specified direction)
o
     1. art. the masculine singular definite article
     2. pron. him, it (as a direct object; as an indirect object, see lhe; after prepositions, see ele)
carro
     1. n-m. cart (vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal)
     2. n-m. car; automobile
     3. n-m. any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as an elevator, a cable car, or a train wagon
de
     1. prep. of (in relation to)
     2. prep.          of (forms compounds; often untranslated)
     3. prep.          of; about (on the subject of)
     4. prep.          of; -'s (belonging to)
     5. prep.          -'s (made by)
     6. prep.          of (being a part of)
     7. prep.          of (introduces the month a given day is part of)
     8. prep.          of (introduces the object of an agent noun)
     9. prep.          of (introduces the name of a place following its hypernym)
     10. prep. of; -en (made or consisting of)
     11. prep.          -long (having the duration of)
     12. prep.          of (indicates the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun)
     13. prep.          of (characterised by; having the given quality)
     14. prep. of (introduces the noun that applies a given adjective or past participle)
     15. prep. from (born in or coming out of)
     16. prep. by means of; by
     17. prep. as (in the role of)
     18. prep. in (wearing)
seu
     1. pron. third-person possessive pronoun his; her; its
     2. pron. third-personplural possessive pronoun their; theirs
     3. pron. second-person possessive pronoun your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun você)
     4. pron. second-personplural possessive pronoun your; yours (when using the second-person pronoun vocês)
     5. pron. you (used before epithets for emphasis)
     6. n-m. (familiar) mister (as a form of address)
pai
     1. n-m. father (male who sires a child)
     2. n-m. one's father
     3. n-m. (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
     4. n-m. (figurative) father (the founder of a discipline or science)




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