See preface on Wiktionary
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"form": "prefăcuși",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcu",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcurăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcurăți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcură",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"perfect",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcusem",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcuseși",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcuse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcuserăm",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcuserăți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefăcuseră",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"pluperfect",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefac",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefaci",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefacă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefacem",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefaceți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "să prefacă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "prefă",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "prefaceți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "nu preface",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nu prefaceți",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"negative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "preface",
"2": "prefăcut",
"conj": "3"
},
"expansion": "a preface (third-person singular present preface, past participle prefăcut) 3rd conj.",
"name": "ro-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1p": "prefacem",
"1s": "prefac",
"2imp": "prefă",
"2p": "prefaceți",
"2s": "prefaci",
"3imp": "prefăcea",
"3p": "prefac",
"3perf": "prefăcu",
"3s": "preface",
"3sub": "prefacă",
"ger": "prefăcând",
"imp": "prefăce",
"past": "prefăcut",
"perf": "prefăcu",
"type": "3"
},
"name": "ro-conj-2"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to change"
],
"links": [
[
"change",
"change"
]
],
"tags": [
"conjugation-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Romanian reflexive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to pretend"
],
"links": [
[
"pretend",
"pretend"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(reflexive) to pretend"
],
"tags": [
"conjugation-3",
"reflexive"
]
}
],
"word": "preface"
}
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