See rhetorical question on Wiktionary
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "ui makihoi"
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"_dis1": "90 10",
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"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
"word": "反問句 /反问句"
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"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
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"word": "řečnická otázka"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
"word": "retorinen kysymys"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
"word": "question rhétorique"
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{
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"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"word": "rhetorische Frage"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "question posed for dramatic or persuasive effect",
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{
"code": "is",
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"tags": [
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"word": "retorísk spurning"
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"code": "is",
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"word": "ræðuspurning"
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"alt": "しゅうじぎもん",
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"word": "修辞疑問"
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"word": "反語"
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"word": "pirsa retorîk"
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"word": "реторичко прашање"
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"code": "ms",
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"word": "ui makihoi"
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"word": "ui mākoi"
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"word": "pātai mākoi"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.