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

deux

two

jours

plural of jour (“day”)

avant

• Adv

  beforehand; earlier

• Prep
• Noun

de

• Prep

  1. of (expresses belonging)
  2. of (used to express property or association)
  3. from (used to indicate origin)
  4. of (indicates an amount)
  5. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
  6. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
  7. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
  8. by (indicates the amount of change)

• Article
• Noun

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

soldats

plural of soldat

dans

• Prep

  1. in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state)
  2. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes)
  3. in, within (a longer period of time)
  4. during
  5. out of, from
  6. in; in the works of
  7. (colloquial) Used in dans les (“about, around”)

• Noun