See General on Wiktionary
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"form": "Generälen",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Generalen",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "General",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Generäle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Generale",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,(e)s,^e:e",
"f": "^in,in"
},
"expansion": "General m (strong, genitive Generales or Generals, plural Generäle or Generale, feminine Generälin or Generalin)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,(e)s,^e:e"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"de:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"general (officer in any general rank)"
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"general",
"general"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military) general (officer in any general rank)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"de:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"general (officer in a specific general rank, usually the highest)"
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"general",
"general"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military) general (officer in a specific general rank, usually the highest)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"de:Roman Catholicism"
],
"glosses": [
"general (head of an order)"
],
"links": [
[
"Roman Catholicism",
"Roman Catholicism"
],
[
"general",
"general"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Roman Catholicism) general (head of an order)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
],
"topics": [
"Catholicism",
"Christianity",
"Roman-Catholicism"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌɡe(ː).nəˈʁaːl/",
"tags": [
"standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌɡɛ.nəˈʁaːl/",
"note": "alternative in common speech"
},
{
"audio": "De-General.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/De-General.ogg/De-General.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/De-General.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aːl"
}
],
"word": "General"
}
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