See できない on Wiktionary
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"ruby": [
[
"無",
"む"
],
[
"資",
"し"
],
[
"格",
"かく"
]
],
"sense": "ineligible",
"word": "無資格"
}
],
"word": "できない"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1896",
"msg": "Template nesting error: template_nesting = 1 couldn't split inflection templates, できない/Japanese section inflection",
"path": [
"できない"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "できない",
"trace": ""
}
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