No. 792 in French

sorti

The French word "sorti" means "gone out" or "exited."

In a sentence

Je suis sorti ce matin pour acheter du pain.
I went out this morning to buy some bread.
The word 'sorti' here is the past participle of the verb 'sortir' used with the auxiliary verb 'être' to indicate a completed action of going out in the past.
Il a sorti son parapluie quand il a commencé à pleuvoir.
He took out his umbrella when it started raining.
In this sentence, 'sorti' acts as the past participle of 'sortir', used with the auxiliary verb 'avoir' to describe the action of taking something out.
Les invités sont sortis du bâtiment après la réunion.
The guests exited the building after the meeting.
Here, 'sortis' conforms to the past participle of 'sortir' matching in number and gender with the plural masculine subject 'les invités', employed after the auxiliary 'être' to indicate that the guests left a location.

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