See matai on Wiktionary
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],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular present of matýti (“to see”)"
],
"links": [
[
"matýti",
"matyti#Lithuanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "matai"
}
{
"categories": [
"Lithuanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Lithuanian non-lemma forms",
"Lithuanian noun forms",
"Lithuanian verb forms",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "mãtai",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "noun form",
"head": "mãtai"
},
"expansion": "mãtai",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"lang_code": "lt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "measure",
"word": "mãtas"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nominative/vocative plural of mãtas (“measure”)"
],
"links": [
[
"mãtas",
"matas#Lithuanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"nominative",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "matai"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "matai",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese non-lemma forms",
"Portuguese verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "matar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person plural imperative of matar"
],
"links": [
[
"matar",
"matar#Portuguese"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"word": "matai"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "fa'amatai"
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "matai",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Samoan",
"lang_code": "sm",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "ali'i"
},
{
"word": "gagana fa'aaloalo"
},
{
"word": "ao"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Samoan entries with incorrect language header",
"Samoan lemmas",
"Samoan nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"headman; chief"
],
"links": [
[
"headman",
"headman"
],
[
"chief",
"chief"
]
]
}
],
"word": "matai"
}
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