Usage Note
Mourir takes être in the past tense — il est mort — and its participle mort doubles as the noun and adjective for death. Hyperbole loves it: mourir de faim means to be starving, and mourir de rire is to be dying of laughter.
Examples
"Les fleurs vont mourir."
Natural Translation
The flowers are going to die.
Literal Translation
The flowers go to-die
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