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"word": "aktivizoj"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīhuó",
"sense": "to put into operation",
"word": "激活"
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"sense": "to put into operation",
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"sense": "to put into operation",
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"word": "activar"
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},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to put into operation",
"word": "vključiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put into operation",
"word": "activar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to put into operation",
"word": "aktivera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to put into operation",
"word": "etkinleştirmek"
}
],
"word": "activate"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "activate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "activar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of activar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"activar",
"activar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "activate"
}
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