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"sense": "entertainer",
"word": "nghệ sĩ hài"
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"lit": "",
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"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
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"indefinite",
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},
{
"form": "niște comedieni",
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "comedienii",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "comedian",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui comedian",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "comedianului",
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unor comedieni",
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "comedienilor",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "comedianule",
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"singular",
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]
},
{
"form": "comedienilor",
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"plural",
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]
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"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian masculine nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
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[
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"comedian#English"
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],
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