See bref on Wiktionary
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},
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},
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{
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{
"word": "dans les plus brefs délais"
},
{
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}
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"english": "He sent her a brief message of only a few lines.",
"text": "Il lui envoya un bref message de quelques lignes seulement.",
"type": "example"
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},
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"1": "fr",
"2": "la",
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{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "mery"
},
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}
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"plural"
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"(rare) diminutive, little"
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"stupid"
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"(rare) stupid"
],
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]
}
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"ipa": "/breːf/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbreːv(ə)/"
}
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},
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[
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],
[
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"record"
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]
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"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
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"Society",
"All topics",
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"breve (double whole note)"
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[
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"music"
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[
"breve",
"breve"
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"(rare, music) breve (double whole note)"
],
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],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈbreːv(ə)/"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"name": "inh"
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],
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{
"form": "bref oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
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},
{
"form": "bres",
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"oblique",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "bres",
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"nominative",
"singular"
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{
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"plural"
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"expansion": "bref oblique singular, m (oblique plural bres, nominative singular bres, nominative plural bref)",
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[
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}
],
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},
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"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
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{
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{
"kind": "other",
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},
{
"english": "October",
"word": "Hydref"
}
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[
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[
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[
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.