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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "can't seem"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "meseems"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seeming"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemingly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemlihood"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "seemliness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sem-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "semen",
"t": "to seem, befit, be becoming"
},
"expansion": "Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "sœma",
"t": "to conform to, beseem, befit"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*sōmijaną",
"t": "to unite, fit"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sem-",
"t": "one; whole"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "seme",
"t": "to be fitting; beseem"
},
"expansion": "Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "sømme",
"t": "to beseem"
},
"expansion": "Danish sømme (“to beseem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "søma"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish søma",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "søma",
"t": "to be proper"
},
"expansion": "Faroese søma (“to be proper”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "sómi",
"t": "honour"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sómi (“honour”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "somme",
"t": "decent comportment"
},
"expansion": "Danish somme (“decent comportment”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "sœmr",
"t": "fitting, seemly"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sēman",
"t": "to reconcile, bring an agreement"
},
"expansion": "Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sōm",
"3": "",
"4": "agreement"
},
"expansion": "Old English sōm (“agreement”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English semen (“to seem, befit, be becoming”), from Old Norse sœma (“to conform to, beseem, befit”), from Proto-Germanic *sōmijaną (“to unite, fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; whole”). Cognate with Scots seme (“to be fitting; beseem”), Danish sømme (“to beseem”), Old Swedish søma, Faroese søma (“to be proper”). Related also to Old Norse sómi (“honour”) ( > archaic Danish somme (“decent comportment”)), Old Norse sœmr (“fitting, seemly”), Old English sēman (“to reconcile, bring an agreement”), Old English sōm (“agreement”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "seems",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "seeming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "seemed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "seem (third-person singular simple present seems, present participle seeming, simple past and past participle seemed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How did she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. It seems like rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1813 (14ᵗʰc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.\nHe, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied."
},
{
"ref": "2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club",
"text": "So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"id": "en-seem-en-verb-gaz4ER5N",
"links": [
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
],
[
"appear",
"appear"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"outwardly",
"outwardly"
],
[
"perceive",
"perceive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"alt": "(present tense:) يَبْدُو (yabdū)",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "badā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "بَدَا"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ẓahara",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ظَهَرَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻval",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "թվալ"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "par"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "iruditu"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zdavácca",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "здава́цца"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izgleždam",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изглеждам"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "struvam se",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "струвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parèixer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahooba"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "chihmi"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎoxiàng",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "好像"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "顯得"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎnde",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "显得"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cho",
"lang": "Choctaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahoba"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdát se"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lijken"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "schijnen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ŝajni"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dze"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tuntua"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vaikuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paraître"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "avoir l’air"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanbler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sambler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "senbler"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parê"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semellar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "čans",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ჩანს"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "scheinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dünken"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vorkommen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaumjan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "faínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phaínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dokéō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "δοκέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eídomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "εἴδομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "éoika",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ἔοικα"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanble"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nir'á",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "נראה"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "लगना"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dikhnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "दिखना"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "látszik"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tűnik"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verðast"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "taibhsigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembrare"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parere"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "apparire"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...rashii",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...らしい"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...-sō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...そう"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...yō-ni mieru",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...ように見える"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "hak dooc cie",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ហាក់ដូចជា"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "boida",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "보이다"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"alt": "~in geot gatda",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "~인 것 같다"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دیارە"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "wa dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "وا دیارە"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "videor"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izgleda",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изгледа"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se čini",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "се чини"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ngia"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblier"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pathaître"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paréisser"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "þyncan"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wydawać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wydać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdawać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "rikch'ay"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "părea"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parair"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pareir"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "каза́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "показа́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdavátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сдава́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "ñel",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ᱧᱮᱞ"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parrere"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parri"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parriri"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdať sa"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdeti se"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "förefalla"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verka"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tyckas"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synas"
},
{
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "da",
"2": "somme",
"t": "decent comportment"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "sœmr",
"t": "fitting, seemly"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sēman",
"t": "to reconcile, bring an agreement"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "sōm",
"3": "",
"4": "agreement"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"third-person"
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{
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"present"
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"past"
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}
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{
"text": "He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How did she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. It seems like rain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1813 (14ᵗʰc.), Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.\nHe, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied."
},
{
"ref": "2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club",
"text": "So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"copulative",
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[
"appear",
"appear"
],
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
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"outwardly"
],
[
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"perceive"
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],
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],
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene",
"roman": "Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.",
"text": "And all within were pathes and alleies wide,\nWith footing worne, and leading inward farre:",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To befit; to beseem."
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"beseem"
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],
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],
"tags": [
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]
}
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},
{
"rhymes": "-iːm"
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{
"homophone": "seme"
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"alt": "(present tense:) يَبْدُو (yabdū)",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "badā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "بَدَا"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ẓahara",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ظَهَرَ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻval",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "թվալ"
},
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "par"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paecer"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmək"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "iruditu"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
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"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "здава́цца"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izgleždam",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изглеждам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "struvam se",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "струвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parèixer"
},
{
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahooba"
},
{
"code": "cic",
"lang": "Chickasaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "chihmi"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hǎoxiàng",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "好像"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "顯得"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎnde",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "显得"
},
{
"code": "cho",
"lang": "Choctaw",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ahoba"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdát se"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lijken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "schijnen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ŝajni"
},
{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dze"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tuntua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vaikuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paraître"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "avoir l’air"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanbler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sambler"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "senbler"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parê"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semellar"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "čans",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ჩანს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "scheinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dünken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "vorkommen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaumjan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "faínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phaínomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "φαίνομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dokéō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "δοκέω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "eídomai",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "εἴδομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "éoika",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ἔοικα"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sanble"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nir'á",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "נראה"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "लगना"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dikhnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "दिखना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "látszik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tűnik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verðast"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblar"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "taibhsigh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "sembrare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "apparire"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...rashii",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...らしい"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...-sō",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...そう"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...yō-ni mieru",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "...ように見える"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "hak dooc cie",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ហាក់ដូចជា"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "boida",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "보이다"
},
{
"alt": "~in geot gatda",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "~인 것 같다"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دیارە"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "wa dyare",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "وا دیارە"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "videor"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "izgleda",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "изгледа"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "se čini",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "се чини"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ngia"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "semblier"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pathaître"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synes"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "paréisser"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "þyncan"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wydawać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wydać się"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdawać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdać się"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "rikch'ay"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "părea"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parair"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "pareir"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parer"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "каза́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokazátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "показа́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdavátʹsja",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "сдава́ться"
},
{
"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "ñel",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ᱧᱮᱞ"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parrere"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parri"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parriri"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to appear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdať sa"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "zdeti se"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "parecer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "förefalla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "verka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "tyckas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "synas"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "anipiñcu",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "అనిపించు"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "doo mĕuan",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "ดูเหมือน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "görünmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "gözükmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zdavátysja",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "здава́тися"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "lagnā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "لگنا"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "dikhānā",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "دکھایا"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "có vẻ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "hình như"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "dường như"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "jinön"
},
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"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "lykje"
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{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to appear",
"word": "asayen"
}
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