See terne on Wiktionary
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"glosses": [
"inflection of terno:",
"oblique masculine singular/feminine singular/plural"
],
"links": [
[
"terno",
"terno#Romani"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"masculine",
"oblique",
"plural",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "terne"
}
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"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
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"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "terne",
"name": "head"
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],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "ternar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of ternar:",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"ternar",
"ternar#Spanish"
]
],
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"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
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{
"word": "ternar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of ternar:",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"ternar",
"ternar#Spanish"
]
],
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]
}
],
"word": "terne"
}
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