See predicament on Wiktionary
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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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"code": "pt",
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"form": "predicament",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "predicamentelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "e"
},
"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"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pre.di.kaˈment/"
}
],
"word": "predicament"
}
Download raw JSONL data for predicament meaning in All languages combined (16.2kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"predicament"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "predicament",
"trace": ""
}
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