See svelte on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "svelte (present tense svelt, past tense svalt, supine svolte, past participle svolten, present participle sveltande, imperative svelt)",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to feel hungry"
],
"links": [
[
"hungry",
"hungry"
]
],
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"(intransitive) to feel hungry"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to starve"
],
"links": [
[
"starve",
"starve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) to starve"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "svelte"
}
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"Pages with entries"
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"3": "svelta"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*sweltaną"
},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Norse svelta, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. The noun is derived from the verb.",
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{
"form": "svelta",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
}
],
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"lang_code": "nn",
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{
"glosses": [
"hunger, starvation"
],
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[
"hunger",
"hunger"
],
[
"starvation",
"starvation"
]
],
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"feminine",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"nn:Card games"
],
"glosses": [
"a two player card game wherein the goal is to \"starve\" the opponent of all their card"
],
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[
"card game",
"card game"
],
[
"two player",
"two player"
]
],
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"(card games) a two player card game wherein the goal is to \"starve\" the opponent of all their card"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
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"games"
]
}
],
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}
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"word": "svelte ut"
}
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"args": {
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*swaltijaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *swaltijaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Causative of svelte (Etymology 1). From Old Norse svelta, from Proto-Germanic *swaltijaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "svelter",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "svelte",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "svelt",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "sveltast",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "sveltande",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "svelt",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "svelta",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to starve (someone)"
],
"links": [
[
"starve",
"starve"
]
],
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"(transitive) to starve (someone)"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "svelte"
}
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