See inform on on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "informs on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "informing on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "informed on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "informed on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "inform on (third-person singular simple present informs on, present participle informing on, simple past and past participle informed on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-12:",
"text": "In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To tell on someone; to act as an informant against."
],
"id": "en-inform_on-en-verb-XmvKpNXc",
"links": [
[
"tell on",
"tell on"
],
[
"informant",
"informant"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "finger"
},
{
"word": "grass up"
},
{
"word": "snitch"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"word": "angi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"word": "tyste på"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "donosić"
},
{
"alt": "+ na",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "donieść"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donosítʹ",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доноси́ть"
},
{
"alt": "+ на",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donestí",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donósyty",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доно́сити"
},
{
"alt": "+ на",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donestý",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
}
]
}
],
"word": "inform on"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "informs on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "informing on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "informed on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "informed on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "inform on (third-person singular simple present informs on, present participle informing on, simple past and past participle informed on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-12:",
"text": "In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To tell on someone; to act as an informant against."
],
"links": [
[
"tell on",
"tell on"
],
[
"informant",
"informant"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "finger"
},
{
"word": "grass up"
},
{
"word": "snitch"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"word": "angi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"word": "tyste på"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "donosić"
},
{
"alt": "+ na",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "donieść"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donosítʹ",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доноси́ть"
},
{
"alt": "+ на",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "donestí",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donósyty",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "доно́сити"
},
{
"alt": "+ на",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "donestý",
"sense": "to act as an informant against — see also inform",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "донести́"
}
],
"word": "inform on"
}
Download raw JSONL data for inform on meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.