See nê on Wiktionary
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"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[nej˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
}
],
"word": "nê"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Vietnamese adjectives",
"Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
"Vietnamese lemmas",
"Vietnamese nouns",
"Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"head": "",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "nê",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nê",
"name": "vi-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ne˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[nej˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[nej˧˧]",
"note": "Saigon"
}
],
"word": "nê"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "e"
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zza",
"2": "particle"
},
"expansion": "nê",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zazaki",
"lang_code": "zza",
"pos": "particle",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Zazaki entries with incorrect language header",
"Zazaki lemmas",
"Zazaki particles"
],
"glosses": [
"no, nope"
],
"links": [
[
"no",
"no"
],
[
"nope",
"nope"
]
]
}
],
"word": "nê"
}
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