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"ipa": "/ɪmˈpɔːtjuːneɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪmˈpɔɹtjuːneɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to obtain by importunity",
"word": "importunar"
}
],
"word": "importunate"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms",
"Italian verb forms"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "importunate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of importunare:",
"second-person plural present indicative"
],
"links": [
[
"importunare",
"importunare#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of importunare:",
"second-person plural imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"importunare",
"importunare#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"word": "importunate"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "past participle form",
"g": "f-p"
},
"expansion": "importunate f pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "importunato"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of importunato"
],
"links": [
[
"importunato",
"importunato#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"participle",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "importunate"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "importunate",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "importunar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of importunar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"importunar",
"importunar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "importunate"
}
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