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"form": "sextanten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sextanter",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sextanterna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sextants",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sextantens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sextanters",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sextanternas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "sextant c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "sextant c",
"name": "sv-noun"
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],
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{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-er"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"sv:Nautical"
],
"glosses": [
"a sextant"
],
"links": [
[
"nautical",
"nautical"
],
[
"sextant",
"sextant#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nautical) a sextant"
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
],
"wikipedia": [
"sv:sextant"
]
}
],
"word": "sextant"
}
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