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"name": "univ"
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"english": "Not that it might not be therefore of (the) body, but (rather) it is of it",
"text": "Ní nád ṁbed arse di chorp, act atá de.",
"type": "example"
}
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"therefore, for this/that reason"
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"lifestyle",
"literature",
"media",
"music",
"poetry",
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"writing"
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"word": "ársis"
}
],
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"Romanian verb forms"
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{
"word": "ars"
}
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"inflection of ars:",
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"ars",
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]
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]
]
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],
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{
"ipa": "[ˈarse]"
}
],
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}
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