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

y

• Character

  a letter in the French alphabet, after x and before z

• Pron
• Pron

avait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of avoir

encore

1. still
2. more
3. again
4. yet, not yet

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

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

fort

• Adj

  1. strong; powerful
  2. (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects)
  3. who can count on

• Adv
• Noun

chômage

1. idleness
2. unemployment