See complaisant on Wiktionary
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Fr-complaisant.ogg"
}
],
"word": "complaisant"
}
{
"categories": [
"French 3-syllable words",
"French adjectives",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French non-lemma forms",
"French present participles",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"fr:Personality"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "mari complaisant"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "complaisante",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "complaisants",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "complaisantes",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "complaisant (feminine complaisante, masculine plural complaisants, feminine plural complaisantes)",
"name": "fr-adj"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"complaisant, obliging, eager to please"
],
"links": [
[
"complaisant",
"complaisant#English"
],
[
"obliging",
"obliging"
],
[
"eager",
"eager"
],
[
"please",
"please"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔ̃.plɛ.zɑ̃/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kɔ̃.ple.zɑ̃/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-complaisant.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f1/Fr-complaisant.ogg/Fr-complaisant.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Fr-complaisant.ogg"
}
],
"word": "complaisant"
}
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