See Melinda on Wiktionary
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"form": "Melindákéi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindám",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindáim",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindád",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindáid",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindája",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindái",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindánk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindáink",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindátok",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindáitok",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindájuk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-single",
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "Melindáik",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"possessed-many",
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hu",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Melinda",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Me‧lin‧da"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Melindá",
"2": "o"
},
"name": "hu-infl-nom"
}
],
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hungarian entries with incorrect language header",
"Hungarian female given names",
"Hungarian given names",
"Hungarian lemmas",
"Hungarian links with redundant alt parameters",
"Hungarian links with redundant wikilinks",
"Hungarian proper nouns",
"Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Hungarian/dɒ",
"Rhymes:Hungarian/dɒ/3 syllables"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Bánk bán (play)",
"József Katona"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɛlindɒ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-dɒ"
}
],
"word": "Melinda"
}
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"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
"path": [
"Melinda"
],
"section": "Hungarian",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Melinda",
"trace": "started on line 91, detected on line 91"
}
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'non-attributive possessive – singular'",
"path": [
"Melinda"
],
"section": "Hungarian",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Melinda",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'non-attributive possessive – plural'",
"path": [
"Melinda"
],
"section": "Hungarian",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Melinda",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"Melinda"
],
"section": "Hungarian",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Melinda",
"trace": ""
}
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