See beholde on Wiktionary
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"Nynorsk"
],
"word": "behalde"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål lemmas",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Middle Low German",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Saxon",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with be-",
"Norwegian Bokmål verbs",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to keep, retain"
],
"links": [
[
"keep",
"keep"
],
[
"retain",
"retain"
]
]
}
],
"word": "beholde"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1896",
"msg": "Template nesting error: template_nesting = 2 couldn't split inflection templates, beholde/Danish section conjugation",
"path": [
"beholde"
],
"section": "Danish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "beholde",
"trace": ""
}
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