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"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links",
"French terms with usage examples",
"fr:Toys"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I've found a Lego (brick) under your bed.",
"text": "J’ai trouvé un Lego sous ton lit.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Je collectionne les Lego (ou Legos).\nI collect Lego/Legos.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I've bought a Lego car.",
"text": "J’ai acheté une voiture Lego.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Un avion en Lego/Legos\nA plane made of Lego/Legos",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Lego"
],
"links": [
[
"Lego",
"Lego#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"fr:Lego"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/le.ɡo/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Lego.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-Lego.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-Lego.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-Lego.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-Lego.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "Lego"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Legos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "Lego m (plural Legos)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "lego"
}
],
"categories": [
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of lego"
],
"links": [
[
"lego",
"lego#Portuguese"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "Lego"
}
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