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"name": "bor+"
},
{
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"1": "es",
"2": "en",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "English",
"name": "bor"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "debacles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "debacle f (plural debacles)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from English",
"Spanish terms borrowed from French",
"Spanish terms derived from English",
"Spanish terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"debacle"
],
"links": [
[
"debacle",
"debacle#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "debacle"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-n-zero",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "debacle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debaclet",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debacle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debaclen",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debacles",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debaclets",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "debacles",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "debaclens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "n",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "debacle n",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "n"
},
"expansion": "debacle n",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"stem": "debacl"
},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-n-zero"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "fiasko"
},
{
"word": "flopp"
},
{
"word": "misslyckande"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish neuter nouns",
"Swedish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"a debacle"
],
"links": [
[
"debacle",
"debacle#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "debacle"
}
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