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"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "cualesquiera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "cualquiera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "quien"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "quien sea"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "quienquiera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "quienquier"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "sinuman"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "mn",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "𐎎𐎐"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "mnk",
"sense": "any person or persons that",
"word": "𐎎𐎐𐎋"
}
],
"word": "whoever"
}
Download raw JSONL data for whoever meaning in All languages combined (10.9kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": któ by (to) ní býlo vs. то",
"path": [
"whoever"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "whoever",
"trace": ""
}
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