See valks on Wiktionary
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"form": "valkos",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "valk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "valki",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "valks",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "valk",
"2": "s",
"3": "1st",
"extrawidth": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "valk",
"2": "s",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"drop-v": "",
"keep-s": "",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-1"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "valks",
"10": "valkiem",
"11": "valkā",
"12": "valkos",
"13": "valk",
"14": "valki",
"2": "valki",
"3": "valku",
"4": "valkus",
"5": "valka",
"6": "valku",
"7": "valkam",
"8": "valkiem",
"9": "valku",
"type": "1st",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-table"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latvian dialectal terms",
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
26
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
18,
24
]
],
"english": "she walked to the stream",
"text": "viņa aizstaigā līdz valkam",
"translation": "she walked to the stream",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
16,
22
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
19,
24
]
],
"english": "they went over the brook on a little rotten bridge",
"text": "viņas gāja pāri valkam pa iztrupējušu tiltiņu",
"translation": "they went over the brook on a little rotten bridge",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"creek, brook, small water stream"
],
"links": [
[
"creek",
"creek"
],
[
"brook",
"brook"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"stream",
"stream"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal) creek, brook, small water stream"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[vâlks]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "strauts"
}
],
"word": "valks"
}
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