a

• Character

  The first letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• Noun
• Pron
• Verb

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

chevalier

1. knight
2. sandpiper (bird)

de la

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

croix

1. cross (shape)
2. a representation of a cross; the cross as a heraldic symbol

de fer

1. iron, Eisenfarbe (a grey tincture)
2. strong, resilient, iron

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

la

• Article

  the (definite article)

• Pron
• Noun