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Au début
  de la
  Renaissance
Proper noun
, l'abbaye  connut
Verb
 d'importantes  difficultés
Noun
  financières
Adjective
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At the beginning of the Renaissance, the abbey experienced significant financial difficulties.
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au début

initially, at first

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de la

  1. of the
  2. some; the feminine partitive article

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renaissance

rebirth, renaissance

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connut

third-person singular past historic of connaître

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difficultés

plural of difficulté

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financières

plural of financier

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au

Contraction of à le (“to the, for the, at the”).

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de

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