See debilitate on Wiktionary
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debilitățile",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debilități",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debilității",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debilități",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debilităților",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debilitate",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "debilitateo",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "debilităților",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "debilități"
},
"expansion": "debilitate f (plural debilități)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "debilităților",
"gpi": "debilități",
"gsd": "debilității",
"gsi": "debilități",
"n": "",
"npd": "debilitățile",
"npi": "debilități",
"nsd": "debilitatea",
"nsi": "debilitate",
"vp": "debilităților",
"vs": "debilitate",
"vs2": "debilitateo"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian feminine nouns",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms suffixed with -itate"
],
"glosses": [
"debility"
],
"links": [
[
"debility",
"debility"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "debilitate"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "debilitate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "debilitar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of debilitar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"voseo",
"voseo#Spanish"
],
[
"debilitar",
"debilitar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "debilitate"
}
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