See defii on Wiktionary
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "defiatojn",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"noun-from-verb",
"participle",
"passive",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "defiiton",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"noun-from-verb",
"participle",
"passive",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "defiitojn",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"noun-from-verb",
"participle",
"passive",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "defioton",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"future",
"noun-from-verb",
"participle",
"passive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "defiotojn",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"future",
"noun-from-verb",
"participle",
"passive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "defiante",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"adverbial",
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "defiinte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"adverbial",
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "defionte",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"adverbial",
"future",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "defiate",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"participle",
"passive",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "defiite",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"participle",
"passive",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "defiote",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"future",
"participle",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "defii",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "defiu",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "defius",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"future",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "defii (present defias, past defiis, future defios, conditional defius, volitive defiu)",
"name": "eo-head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"de‧fi‧i"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"de‧fi‧i"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "eo-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Esperanto 3-syllable words",
"Esperanto 9OA",
"Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
"Esperanto lemmas",
"Esperanto terms borrowed from English",
"Esperanto terms borrowed from French",
"Esperanto terms derived from English",
"Esperanto terms derived from French",
"Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation",
"Esperanto transitive verbs",
"Esperanto verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Esperanto/ii",
"Rhymes:Esperanto/ii/3 syllables",
"Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto"
],
"glosses": [
"to challenge someone (to a fight, competition, debate, etc.)"
],
"links": [
[
"challenge",
"challenge"
],
[
"fight",
"fight"
],
[
"competition",
"competition"
],
[
"debate",
"debate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) to challenge someone (to a fight, competition, debate, etc.)"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/deˈfii/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ii"
}
],
"word": "defii"
}
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