il

1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
3. Impersonal subject; it

était

third-person singular imperfect indicative of être

inspecteur

1. inspector
2. assessor

général

• Noun

  general

• Adj

des

• Article

  1. plural of un (“some; the plural indefinite article”)
  2. plural of une (“some; the plural indefinite article”)
  3. plural of du (“some; the plural partitive article”)
  4. plural of de la (“some; the plural partitive article”)
  5. plural of de l’ (“some; the plural partitive article”)

• Contraction

ponts

plural of pont

et

and

chaussées

feminine plural of chaussé