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L'âge venu Verb , ils Pronoun ne 🚫 Adverb mouraient Verb pas Adverb mais Coordinating conjunction remontaient Verb au ciel Noun par Adposition cette Determiner corde 🪢 Noun .
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When age came, they did not die but went back to heaven by this rope. When age came, they did not die but went back to heaven by this rope.
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ils
- they (male or mixed group)
- (informal) they (female)
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ne
- not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes)
- not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below)
- Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so-called "pleonastic" or "expletive" ne.
- In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative
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mouraient
third-person plural imperfect indicative of mourir
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mais
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but, although
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au
Contraction of à le (“to the, for the, at the”).
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ciel
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- sky
- heaven
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cette
feminine singular of ce
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corde
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- rope (general)
- chord
- chord (of a string instrument)
- chord (vocal chord)
- line (washing line, for hanging clothes to dry)
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