See weten on Wiktionary
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"subjunctive"
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"english": "My great-grandmother, she was actually not from here, strictly speaking. From Bridgetown, she was. 'Bados', the local people say, because they can't speak like us. Bajan... Bajan, they speak there, a kind of Creole, but still a bit different from ours.",
"ref": "2003, Marylin Simons, Carrousel, Paramaribo: Okopipi, →ISBN, page 53:",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"1": "weet",
"10": "—",
"11": "weten",
"12": "weten, wüsst",
"2": "weetst/weeßt",
"3": "weet",
"4": "weet",
"5": "wüss",
"6": "wüsst",
"7": "wüss",
"8": "wüssen",
"9": "—",
"head": "weten (preterite-present)"
},
"name": "nds-conj-table"
}
],
"lang": "Low German",
"lang_code": "nds",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Low German entries with incorrect language header",
"Low German intransitive verbs",
"Low German lemmas",
"Low German terms derived from Middle Low German",
"Low German terms derived from Old Saxon",
"Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Low German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German",
"Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon",
"Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Low German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Low German transitive verbs",
"Low German verbs",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "“I know where you are.”",
"text": "Ik weet, woneem du büst."
},
{
"english": "“to know about something”",
"text": "vun wat weten"
}
],
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"to know; to be aware of (a fact)"
],
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[
"know",
"know"
],
[
"aware",
"aware"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive or intransitive) to know; to be aware of (a fact)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"word": "kennen"
},
{
"word": "witen"
}
],
"word": "weten"
}
{
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"Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle Dutch lemmas",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle Dutch verbs",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "weten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: weten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: weten"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "weet"
},
"expansion": "Afrikaans: weet",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Afrikaans: weet"
},
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "li",
"2": "weite",
"3": "wiete"
},
"expansion": "Limburgish: weite, wiete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Limburgish: weite, wiete"
}
],
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"2": "odt",
"3": "witan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "dum",
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"name": "inh"
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{
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{
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wóyde"
},
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"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Dutch witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde.",
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{
"form": "wēten",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
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"head": "wēten"
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{
"glosses": [
"to know (knowledge)"
],
"links": [
[
"know",
"know"
]
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{
"glosses": [
"to know (person)"
],
"links": [
[
"know",
"know"
]
]
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{
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"to get to know, to learn of, to be made aware of (a fact)"
],
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[
"get to know",
"get to know"
],
[
"learn",
"learn"
],
[
"aware",
"aware"
]
]
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"to be able to"
],
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[
"te",
"te#Middle_Dutch"
],
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"able",
"able"
],
[
"to",
"to"
]
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],
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"with te"
],
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"auxiliary"
]
}
],
"word": "weten"
}
{
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"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "wetten",
"3": "wieten"
},
"expansion": "German Low German: wetten, wieten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "German Low German: wetten, wieten"
}
],
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"1": "gml",
"2": "osx",
"3": "witan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "gml",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*witan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*witaną"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*weyd-",
"4": "",
"5": "see, know"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "wēten",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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"1": "gml",
"2": "verb",
"head": "wēten"
},
"expansion": "wēten",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Low German",
"lang_code": "gml",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle Low German entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle Low German lemmas",
"Middle Low German terms derived from Old Saxon",
"Middle Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Low German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Middle Low German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon",
"Middle Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Low German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle Low German verbs",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"to know (knowledge)"
],
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[
"know",
"know"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wɪətən/",
"note": "originally"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wetten"
}
],
"word": "weten"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Zazaki entries with incorrect language header",
"Zazaki lemmas",
"Zazaki nouns",
"Zazaki terms borrowed from Arabic",
"Zazaki terms derived from Arabic"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "zza",
"2": "ar",
"3": "وَطَن"
},
"expansion": "Arabic وَطَن (waṭan)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Arabic وَطَن (waṭan).",
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{
"args": {
"1": "zza",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{pl}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"f1sc": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": ""
},
"expansion": "weten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "weten",
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}
],
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"lang_code": "zza",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"homeland, home country"
],
"links": [
[
"homeland",
"homeland"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"motherland, fatherland, mother country"
],
"links": [
[
"motherland",
"motherland"
],
[
"fatherland",
"fatherland"
]
]
}
],
"word": "weten"
}
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