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la — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
  • la noun In solfège, the syllable used for the sixth note of a major scale.
  • the article Used before a noun to show that the listener already knows, or can work out, exactly which thing is meant.

Senses

la is used for these senses in English:

  • it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
  • la (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
  • the The definite grammatical article that shows that the noun phrase that immediately follows it is definitely identifiable...

it — full definition

  1. pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
  2. pron Used as a placeholder subject in sentences describing weather, time, or general conditions.

la — full definition

  1. noun In solfège, the syllable used for the sixth note of a major scale.
  2. intj An exclamation representing singing, or used to add emphasis, surprise, or drama to a statement.

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