See predicament on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1978, Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, page xv (20th edition):",
"text": "Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.",
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"text": "The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.",
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{
"form": "predicamente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "niște predicamente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicament",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui predicament",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "unor predicamente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "predicamente"
},
"expansion": "predicament n (plural predicamente)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "predicamentelor",
"gpi": "predicamente",
"gsd": "predicamentului",
"gsi": "predicament",
"n": "",
"npd": "predicamentele",
"npi": "predicamente",
"nsd": "predicamentul",
"nsi": "predicament",
"vp": "predicamentelor",
"vs": "predicamentule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms derived from Late Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Old French"
],
"glosses": [
"predicament"
],
"links": [
[
"predicament",
"predicament#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "predicament"
}
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