See expletive on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vmǎknat",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "вмъкнат"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "expletiu"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "opvullend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "täyte-"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "täyttävä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "lisä-"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "serving to fill up",
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],
"word": "Füllwort"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "pleonastico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "riempitivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "expletivo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "serving to fill up",
"word": "expletivo"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "marked by phrase-fillers",
"word": "expletief"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "marked by phrase-fillers",
"word": "vol krachttermen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "marked by phrase-fillers",
"word": "espletivo"
}
],
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}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vmǎknata duma",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
"word": "вмъкната дума"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
"word": "vulsel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
"word": "opvulling"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
"word": "täytesana"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Expletivum"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
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"word": "expletivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "word added to fill a syntactic position",
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"word": "expletiva"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "word that adds strength to a phrase",
"word": "expletief (woord)"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "word that adds strength to a phrase",
"word": "voimasana"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "word that adds strength to a phrase",
"word": "kraftuttryck"
}
],
"word": "expletive"
}
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