See prate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 136, column 1:",
"text": "Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.",
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"text": "What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!",
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"text": "Urania speaks with darken’d brow:\n‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;\nThis faith has many a purer priest,\nAnd many an abler voice than thou: […]’",
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"word": "бърборя"
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"sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
"word": "bavarder"
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"sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
"word": "plaudern"
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"word": "schwatzen"
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},
{
"form": "praat",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "praten",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "prate",
"name": "head"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "praat",
"2": "prate"
},
"name": "fy-infl-verb-wk1"
}
],
"lang": "West Frisian",
"lang_code": "fy",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"West Frisian basic verbs",
"West Frisian class 1 weak verbs",
"West Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"West Frisian lemmas",
"West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian",
"West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"West Frisian terms with quotations",
"West Frisian verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
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3,
9
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],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
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5,
17
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],
"english": "They were talking excitedly about the holidays.",
"ref": "1991, Froukje Annema, Mei in fleurich sin, Friese Pers Boekerij, →ISBN, page 81:",
"text": "Sy praten drok oer de fakânsjes.",
"translation": "They were talking excitedly about the holidays.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to talk"
],
"links": [
[
"talk",
"talk"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpraːtə/"
}
],
"word": "prate"
}
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'clitic form'",
"path": [
"prate"
],
"section": "West Frisian",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "prate",
"trace": ""
}
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