See observant on Wiktionary
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"feminine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "4"
},
"expansion": "observant m or n (feminine singular observantă, masculine plural observanți, feminine and neuter plural observante)",
"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "observant",
"10": "observantei",
"11": "observanților",
"12": "observantelor",
"2": "observantă",
"3": "observanți",
"4": "observante",
"5": "observantul",
"6": "observanta",
"7": "observanții",
"8": "observantele",
"9": "observantului"
},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "observator"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"observant (obeying the custom, practice or rules of a religion)"
],
"links": [
[
"observant",
"observant#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ob.serˈvant/"
}
],
"word": "observant"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"observant"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "observant",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"observant"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "observant",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"observant"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "observant",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"observant"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "observant",
"trace": ""
}
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