la
part of speech
noun (la — music note); also abbreviation LA; also short sound
meaning for a pupil
1) The sixth note in the do-re-mi singing scale (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do), also written "lah". tree →
2) LA: Los Angeles, a big city in California, USA. tree →
3) A sound people sing when they do not know or do not use the words (la la la). tree →
4) Also the word "the" in French and Spanish, seen in names like "La Paz". tree →
sense in the lessons
In music lessons pupils sing do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. In everyday talk, "LA" is the city. "La la la" is humming or singing without words, sometimes said to show you are not listening. Phrases: la la la, la-la land (dreaming, not paying attention).
examples
- In the volume entitled "La Kabbale" by the eminent French scholar and Membre de L'Institut, Adolphe Franck, there is a chapter on the "Sepher Yetzirah.' He writes as follows: (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the "Sepher Yetzirah," in his "Histoire de la Magie," P. 54: "The Zoharis a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Sing the scale: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. tree →
- La is the sixth note of the scale. tree →
- My cousin lives in LA. tree →
- She sang "la la la" because she forgot the words. tree →
- "La la la, I can't hear you!" he joked. tree →
- He's off in la-la land again (informal: daydreaming). tree →
note
In the scale it is also spelled "lah" (UK). LA (the city) is written in capitals. "La" in names like "La Paz" or "Los Angeles" comes from Spanish and means "the". Not a normal English word on its own.
In the corpora
- «Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending.
- In France the weekend is le week-end, with a hyphen; in Quebec people often say la fin de semaine.
- Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman.
- la tête ("TET") is the head; the ê sounds like "eh".
- la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even for a boy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «la» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.