See probation on Wiktionary
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "messa in prova"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"word": "percubaan"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"word": "poropeihana"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "condicional"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "probațiune"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perioadă de probațiune"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uvjetna"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uvjetna kazna"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "type of sentence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "libertad condicional"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"probation"
],
"word": "probation"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "probations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "probation f (plural probations)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"pro‧ba‧tion"
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 3-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"probation (especially religious)"
],
"links": [
[
"probation",
"probation#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pʁɔ.ba.sjɔ̃/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-probation.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-probation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-probation.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-probation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-probation.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "probation"
}
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