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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by afiori on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:17AM (#31832935)
> il

Are you mixing French and Italian articles?

As an addendum wiktionary[0] is always useful when searching other meanings of a word

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viola

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by Contexti on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:35AM (#31834176)
il is a pronoun[0] in French.

I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples:

il la viola "He raped her"

il viola la loi "He broke the law"

[0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French)

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Re:Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health... by afiori on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:32AM (#31835205)
oh, I did not know, but I studied about 6 hours of French in my life, so it is not surprising.
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