See sitter on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "verb",
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"Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms",
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],
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{
"word": "sitte"
}
],
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"present of sitte"
],
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}
],
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},
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],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "sitje"
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"present tense of sitje"
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"(non-standard since 2012) present tense of sitje"
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"args": {
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},
"expansion": "sitter",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "verb",
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}
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