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Noun [English]

Forms: choses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|chose}} Middle French chose, {{lena}}, {{der|en|la|causa||cause, reason}} Latin causa (“cause, reason”), {{doublet|en|cause}} Doublet of cause Head templates: {{en-noun}} chose (plural choses)
  1. (law) A thing; personal property. Categories (topical): Law Derived forms: chose in action, chose in possession, chose local, chose transitory
    Sense id: en-chose-en-noun-WazsHhFx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 30 30 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 24 26 26 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 26 26 25 Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /t͡ʃəʊz/ [UK], /t͡ʃoʊz/ [US] Audio: En-us-chose.ogg
enPR: chōz [UK], chōz [US] Rhymes: -əʊz Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} chose
  1. simple past of choose Tags: form-of, past Form of: choose
    Sense id: en-chose-en-verb-Au0sB5tG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 30 30 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 24 26 26 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 26 26 25
  2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose Tags: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past Form of: choose
    Sense id: en-chose-en-verb-6vb6oFsy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 30 30 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 24 26 26 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 26 26 25
  3. simple past of chuse Tags: form-of, past Form of: chuse
    Sense id: en-chose-en-verb-x1TIpodC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 30 30 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 24 26 26 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 26 26 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [French]

IPA: /ʃoz/, /ʃoʊ̯z/ [Quebec] Audio: Fr-chose.ogg Forms: choses [plural]
Rhymes: -oz Etymology: Inherited from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|chose|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French chose, {{inh+|fr|fro|chose}} Inherited from Old French chose, {{inh|fr|la|causa}} Latin causa, {{cog|it|cosa}} Italian cosa, {{cog|pt|coisa}} Portuguese coisa, {{cog|es|cosa}} Spanish cosa, {{doublet|fr|cause|notext=1}} cause Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} chose f (plural choses)
  1. thing Tags: feminine Synonyms: truc

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} chose
  1. Alternative form of chois Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: chois
    Sense id: en-chose-enm-noun-WqF1TWne Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Middle French]

Forms: choses [plural]
Etymology: From Old French chose, cose. Etymology templates: {{inh|frm|fro|chose}} Old French chose Head templates: {{head|frm|noun|||plural|choses||{{{pl2}}}||{{{f}}}||{{{f}}}s|f1accel-form=p|g=f|g2=|head=|sort=}} chose f (plural choses), {{frm-noun|f}} chose f (plural choses)
  1. thing Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-chose-frm-noun-XelNaRrj Categories (other): Middle French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Adjective [Norman]

Audio: Jer-chose.ogg
Head templates: {{head|nrf|adjective||||choses||||chosee||||choses||chosees||{{{f2}}}s|f2accel-form=p|f3accel-form=m|s|f4accel-form=f|s|f6accel-form=m|p|f7accel-form=f|p|g=m|g2=f|head=|sort=}} chose m or f, {{nrf-adj|mf}} chose m or f
  1. (Jersey) self-conscious Tags: Jersey, feminine, masculine Synonyms: chôthe [Saint-Ouën]

Noun [Old French]

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃo.zə/ Forms: chose oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], choses [oblique, plural], chose [nominative, singular], choses [nominative, plural]
Etymology: From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause. Etymology templates: {{inh|fro|la|causa}} Latin causa Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} chose oblique singular, f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)
  1. thing (miscellaneous object or concept) Synonyms: cosa (english: very early Old French), cose [Old-Northern-French]
    Sense id: en-chose-fro-noun-VZh3~vx5 Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "18": "{{{f2}}}s",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "choses",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "f2accel-form": "p",
        "f3accel-form": "m|s",
        "f4accel-form": "f|s",
        "f6accel-form": "m|p",
        "f7accel-form": "f|p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "f",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "chose m or f",
      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "mf"
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      "expansion": "chose m or f",
      "name": "nrf-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norman",
  "lang_code": "nrm",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jersey Norman",
        "Norman adjectives",
        "Norman entries with incorrect language header",
        "Norman lemmas",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "self-conscious"
      ],
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        [
          "self-conscious",
          "self-conscious"
        ]
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        "(Jersey) self-conscious"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8c/Jer-chose.ogg/Jer-chose.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Jer-chose.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Saint-Ouën"
      ],
      "word": "chôthe"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chose"
}

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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "frm",
            "2": "chose"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle French: chose",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle French: chose"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "chose"
          },
          "expansion": "French: chose",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: chose"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "tchôze"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: tchôze",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: tchôze"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "causa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin causa",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chose oblique singular or",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choses",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chose",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "choses",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "expansion": "chose oblique singular, f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)",
      "name": "fro-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old French feminine nouns",
        "Old French lemmas",
        "Old French nouns",
        "Old French terms derived from Latin",
        "Old French terms inherited from Latin",
        "Old French terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge",
          "ref": "1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:",
          "text": "si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thing (miscellaneous object or concept)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃo.zə/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "very early Old French",
      "word": "cosa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Northern-French"
      ],
      "word": "cose"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chose"
}

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  "path": [
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  "subsection": "noun",
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}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
  "msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'chose oblique singular or' in 'chose oblique singular, f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)'",
  "path": [
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