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"word": "liukua"
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"sense": "music: to move smoothly from one theme to another",
"word": "überleiten"
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"_dis1": "52 44 4",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "music: to move smoothly from one theme to another",
"word": "átvált"
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"seguir",
"seguir#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of seguir:\n"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "segar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of segar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"segar",
"segar#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of segar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "segar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of segar:\n## first/third-person singular present subjunctive\n## third-person singular imperative",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"segar",
"segar#Portuguese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"inflection of segar:\n"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛ.ɡi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛ.ɡi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛ.ɡe/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛ.ɡɨ/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsɛ.ɣɨ]",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"homophone": "cegue"
}
],
"word": "segue"
}
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