See dingle on Wiktionary
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"form": "dinglende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"10": "dingles",
"11": "simple past and past participle",
"12": "dingla",
"13": "or",
"14": "dinglet",
"15": "present participle",
"16": "dinglende",
"2": "verb",
"3": "imperative",
"4": "dingl",
"5": "or",
"6": "dingle",
"7": "present tense",
"8": "dingler",
"9": "passive"
},
"expansion": "dingle (imperative dingl or dingle, present tense dingler, passive dingles, simple past and past participle dingla or dinglet, present participle dinglende)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål lemmas",
"Norwegian Bokmål verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to dangle, hang, swing"
],
"links": [
[
"dangle",
"dangle"
],
[
"hang",
"hang"
],
[
"swing",
"swing"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dingle"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Delated to dangle and denge",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dinglar",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "dingla",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "dingla",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "dinglast",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "dinglande",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "dingle",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "dingl",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk verbs",
"Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to dangle, hang, swing"
],
"links": [
[
"dangle",
"dangle"
],
[
"hang",
"hang"
],
[
"swing",
"swing"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dingla"
}
],
"word": "dingle"
}
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