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"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "axioane",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "axioanele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "axion",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "axionului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "axioane",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "axioanelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "axionule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "axioanelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "axioane"
},
"expansion": "axion n (plural axioane)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "axioanelor",
"gpi": "axioane",
"gsd": "axionului",
"gsi": "axion",
"n": "",
"npd": "axioanele",
"npi": "axioane",
"nsd": "axionul",
"nsi": "axion",
"vp": "axioanelor",
"vs": "axionule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Greek",
"Romanian terms derived from Greek"
],
"glosses": [
"an Orthodox hymn"
],
"links": [
[
"hymn",
"hymn"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "axion"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"axion"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "axion",
"trace": ""
}
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