See xtara on Wiktionary
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"english": "Because when my father used to build some chicken coop, or some gate, or some arbour, he never bought anything, but frugally collects and patches with what he finds. But I did not want a tent built with rubbish, but a beautiful and neat and strong camp.",
"ref": "2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:",
"text": "Għax meta missieri kien jibni xi gallinar, jew xi xatba, jew xi kannizzata, qatt ma kien jixtri xejn, iżda jlaqqat u jillapazza b’dak li jsib. Imma jiena ma ridtx għarix mibni bl-imbarazz, iżda kamp sabiħ u pulit u b’saħħtu.",
"translation": "Because when my father used to build some chicken coop, or some gate, or some arbour, he never bought anything, but frugally collects and patches with what he finds. But I did not want a tent built with rubbish, but a beautiful and neat and strong camp.",
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"feminine",
"imperfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "nixtrux",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tixtrux",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"imperfect",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "jixtrux",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"imperfect",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "tixtrix",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tixtrux",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "jixtri",
"2": "mixtri",
"3": "",
"4": "xiri"
},
"expansion": "xtara (imperfect jixtri, past participle mixtri, verbal noun xiri)",
"name": "mt-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "VIII.shortistem"
},
"name": "mt-conj-auto"
}
],
"lang": "Maltese",
"lang_code": "mt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Maltese terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
89,
95
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
95,
101
],
[
218,
227
]
],
"english": "Because when my father used to build some chicken coop, or some gate, or some arbour, he never bought anything, but frugally collects and patches with what he finds. But I did not want a tent built with rubbish, but a beautiful and neat and strong camp.",
"ref": "2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:",
"text": "Għax meta missieri kien jibni xi gallinar, jew xi xatba, jew xi kannizzata, qatt ma kien jixtri xejn, iżda jlaqqat u jillapazza b’dak li jsib. Imma jiena ma ridtx għarix mibni bl-imbarazz, iżda kamp sabiħ u pulit u b’saħħtu.",
"translation": "Because when my father used to build some chicken coop, or some gate, or some arbour, he never bought anything, but frugally collects and patches with what he finds. But I did not want a tent built with rubbish, but a beautiful and neat and strong camp.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to buy, purchase"
],
"links": [
[
"buy",
"buy"
],
[
"purchase",
"purchase"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to shop"
],
"links": [
[
"shop",
"shop"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to bribe"
],
"links": [
[
"bribe",
"bribe"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "xaħħam"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃta.ra/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ara"
}
],
"word": "xtara"
}
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