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"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "blondiner",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blondiners",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blondinerna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "blondinernas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "blondin c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "blondin c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-er"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "blond"
},
{
"english": "brunette",
"word": "brunett"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms borrowed from French",
"Swedish terms derived from French",
"sv:People"
],
"glosses": [
"a blonde (woman with blonde hair)"
],
"links": [
[
"blonde",
"blonde"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/blɔnˈdiːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/blɔŋˈdiːn/"
}
],
"word": "blondin"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"blondin"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "blondin",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nominative- accusative'",
"path": [
"blondin"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "blondin",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"blondin"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "blondin",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive- dative'",
"path": [
"blondin"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "blondin",
"trace": ""
}
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