See Carl on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "Carl"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Carls",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "proper noun",
"3": "genitive",
"4": "Carls",
"g": "c",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "Carl c (genitive Carls)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "Carl c (genitive Carls)",
"name": "sv-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish given names",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish male given names",
"Swedish proper nouns",
"Swedish terms with homophones"
],
"glosses": [
"a male given name, variant of Karl"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Karl",
"Karl#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɑːrl/"
},
{
"ipa": "[kɑːɭ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[kɑːl]"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Carl.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Carl.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Carl.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Carl.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Carl.wav.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "kal (only if pronounced [kɑːl])"
}
],
"word": "Carl"
}
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