See sieva on Wiktionary
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13
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
14,
18
]
],
"english": "to look for a wife",
"text": "nolūkot sievu",
"translation": "to look for a wife",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
13,
18
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
10,
14
]
],
"english": "to take a wife (= to get married)",
"text": "ņemt, apņemt sievu",
"translation": "to take a wife (= to get married)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
6
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
7,
14
]
],
"english": "wife's parents",
"text": "sievas vecāki",
"translation": "wife's parents",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
24,
29
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
15,
19
]
],
"english": "she has been a wife for two years",
"text": "viņa jau divus gadus ir sieva",
"translation": "she has been a wife for two years",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
16
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
18,
22
]
],
"english": "he doesn't have a wife",
"text": "viņam nav sievas",
"translation": "he doesn't have a wife",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"wife (married woman; woman with respect to her husband)"
],
"links": [
[
"wife",
"wife"
],
[
"married",
"married#English"
],
[
"woman",
"woman#English"
],
[
"husband",
"husband#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"english": "women's choir",
"text": "sievu koris",
"translation": "women's choir",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
7,
12
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
7,
12
]
],
"english": "market woman (who sells at the market)",
"text": "tirgus sieva",
"translation": "market woman (who sells at the market)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
24
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
5,
10
]
],
"english": "some woman came into the room",
"text": "istabā ienāca kāda sieva",
"translation": "some woman came into the room",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"woman"
],
"links": [
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "[sīɛ̄va]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dzīvesbiedre"
}
],
"word": "sieva"
}
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