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

avait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of avoir

un peu

1. a little, a bit
2. Used to soften an order.

vers

• Prep

  1. towards
  2. to
  3. around, circa (with a date or time)

• Noun
• Noun

jusqu'au

jusque + au

travers

1. outside (the external part of)
2. wide side (the side of which the width is measured)
3. border toll

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

peu

• Adv

  little; not very much/many

• Noun