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"Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Vietnamese terms with audio links"
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"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "này"
},
"expansion": "này",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognate with này.",
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"form": "尼",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
"form": "𫢩",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
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"CJK"
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}
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"3": "",
"4": "",
"head": "",
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},
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"name": "head"
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{
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},
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}
],
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{
"word": "bấy nay"
},
{
"word": "hiện nay"
},
{
"word": "hôm nay"
},
{
"word": "ngày nay"
},
{
"word": "xưa nay"
}
],
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"categories": [
"Vietnamese literary terms",
"Vietnamese terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"english": "If you don't work today, you won't be able to afford to eat tomorrow.",
"text": "Nay không lo làm thì mai không có ăn đâu.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The whole village used to fear their family. These days, though, nobody fears no damn thing.",
"text": "Xưa cả làng sợ họ nhà nó lắm. Nay chẳng ai sợ cái cóc khô gì cả.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"now, the present, as opposed to xưa (“long ago; the past”) and mai (“later in the future”)"
],
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[
"now",
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],
[
"present",
"present"
],
[
"xưa",
"xưa#Vietnamese"
],
[
"mai",
"mai#Vietnamese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually literary) now, the present, as opposed to xưa (“long ago; the past”) and mai (“later in the future”)"
],
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"literary",
"usually"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[naj˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[naj˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[na(ː)j˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
]
},
{
"audio": "Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg/Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
],
"text": "Audio (Hà Nội)"
}
],
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}
{
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"Vietnamese adjectives",
"Vietnamese adverbs",
"Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
"Vietnamese lemmas",
"Vietnamese nouns",
"Vietnamese nouns without classifiers",
"Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Vietnamese terms with audio links"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "này"
},
"expansion": "này",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognate with này.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "尼",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
"form": "𫢩",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
"form": "𬁉",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
},
{
"form": "𠉞",
"tags": [
"CJK"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "adverb",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"head": "",
"tr": "尼, 𫢩, 𬁉, 𠉞"
},
"expansion": "nay • (尼, 𫢩, 𬁉, 𠉞)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "尼, 𫢩, 𬁉, 𠉞"
},
"expansion": "nay • (尼, 𫢩, 𬁉, 𠉞)",
"name": "vi-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "adv",
"related": [
{
"word": "nay mai"
},
{
"english": "this",
"word": "này"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "today",
"word": "hôm nay"
}
],
"categories": [
"Vietnamese clippings"
],
"glosses": [
"Clipping of hôm nay (“today”)"
],
"links": [
[
"hôm nay",
"hôm nay#Vietnamese"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "today",
"word": "bữa nay"
}
],
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"Vietnamese clippings"
],
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"Clipping of bữa nay (“today”)"
],
"links": [
[
"bữa nay",
"bữa nay#Vietnamese"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[naj˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[naj˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Huế"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[na(ː)j˧˧]",
"tags": [
"Hồ-Chí-Minh-City"
]
},
{
"audio": "Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Vi-hanoi-m-nay.ogg",
"tags": [
"Hà-Nội"
],
"text": "Audio (Hà Nội)"
}
],
"word": "nay"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: Kana spelling ナィ",
"path": [
"nay"
],
"section": "Ainu",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "nay",
"trace": ""
}
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