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"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "huckles",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "hucklets",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "hucklens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "hucklenas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "n",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "huckle n",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "n"
},
"expansion": "huckle n",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-n-n"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "huvudduk"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish neuter nouns",
"Swedish nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"a (simpler) headscarf in the form of a shawl"
],
"links": [
[
"headscarf",
"headscarf"
],
[
"shawl",
"shawl"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "huckle"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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