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"word": "no limiar de"
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"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "กำลังจะ"
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"word": "ཁད"
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"note": "verb + ལ་ཁད (la khad)",
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"note": "verb + འགྲོའོ ('gro'o)/གྲབས (grabs) (colloquial/literary) + existential auxiliary ཡོད (yod)/ཡོད་རེད (yod red)/འདུག ('dug) (egophoric/assertive/testimonial)",
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"note": "verb + ཆོག་ཆོག (chog chog) (in the sense of readiness or preparedness)",
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"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "sắp"
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"word": "האַלטן בײַם"
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "sur le point de"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"note": "auxiliary verb ‘to be about to’",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "aller"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "a punto de"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "titkmis mzad",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "თითქმის მზად"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"raw_tags": [
"modifying the verb"
],
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"tags": [
"adverb"
],
"word": "gleich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "auxiliary verb ‘to be about to’",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "wollen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "méllō",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "μέλλω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "amád l-",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עמד ל־"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "készül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "szándékában áll"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "hampir saja"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ar tí"
},
{
"code": "sga",
"lang": "Old Irish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "fri"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"note": "followed by infinitive",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "in procinto di"
},
{
"alt": "+ inf.",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "sul punto di"
},
{
"alt": "+ inf.",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "stare per"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "after verbs in the basic form",
"roman": "...tokoro",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "... ところ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "masa ni ... shiyō to shite iru",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "まさに...しようとしている"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "stəə tae",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ស្ទើរតែ"
},
{
"alt": "(eu)ryeogo hada",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "(으)려고 하다"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "hema hema"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "hema bêje"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"note": "(expressed by the future participle of the verb)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "ruoštis (verb 'prepare to' + inf.)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "ketinti (verb 'intend to, be about to' + inf.)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "adverb 'at once'",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "tuoj"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "adverb 'soon'",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "greitai"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "whano"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "hono"
},
{
"alt": "+ inf.",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "være i ferd med å"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "al mand de"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "zaraz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "właśnie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "no limiar de"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "prestes a"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "a ponto de"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sobirátʹsja",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "собира́ться"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "amega"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "an impis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "a punto de"
},
{
"code": "tyz",
"lang": "Tày",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ái"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gam-lang jà",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "กำลังจะ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "khad",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ཁད"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"note": "verb + ལ་ཁད (la khad)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"note": "verb + འགྲོའོ ('gro'o)/གྲབས (grabs) (colloquial/literary) + existential auxiliary ཡོད (yod)/ཡོད་རེད (yod red)/འདུག ('dug) (egophoric/assertive/testimonial)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"note": "verb + ཆོག་ཆོག (chog chog) (in the sense of readiness or preparedness)",
"sense": "indicating imminence"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "üzere"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "sắp"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ar"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "ar fin"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "haltn baym",
"sense": "indicating imminence",
"word": "האַלטן בײַם"
}
],
"word": "about to"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": beh vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"about to"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "phrase",
"title": "about to",
"trace": ""
}
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