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"english": "Do you have money?",
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},
{
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9,
11
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],
"english": "Do you know how to swim?",
"text": "Kamao ka ba molangoy?",
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}
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"translation": "This one, not that one",
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9,
11
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],
"english": "The key, have you found it?",
"text": "Ang yawi ba, nakit-an na?",
"translation": "The key, have you found it?",
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7,
9
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],
"english": "How big that is!",
"text": "Kadako ba!",
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11
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"english": "Tell me (now, please)",
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9,
11
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],
"english": "Come here (now, please)",
"text": "Ali diri ba",
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{
"word": "ba gud"
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{
"word": "ba karon"
},
{
"word": "ba ron"
},
{
"word": "diay ba"
},
{
"word": "diba"
},
{
"word": "dili ba"
},
{
"word": "mao ba"
},
{
"word": "tiaw mo ba"
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{
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}
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"baga",
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"english": "Do you have money?",
"text": "Aduna ba ka'y kuwarta?",
"translation": "Do you have money?",
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{
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[
9,
11
]
],
"english": "Do you know how to swim?",
"text": "Kamao ka ba molangoy?",
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5,
7
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4
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"english": "This one, not that one",
"text": "Kani ba, dili kato",
"translation": "This one, not that one",
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{
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[
9,
11
]
],
"english": "The key, have you found it?",
"text": "Ang yawi ba, nakit-an na?",
"translation": "The key, have you found it?",
"type": "example"
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"english": "How big that is!",
"text": "Kadako ba!",
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],
"glosses": [
"used for emphasis",
"emphasizing a quality"
],
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{
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{
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{
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9,
11
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],
"english": "Tell me (now, please)",
"text": "Ingna ko ba",
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},
{
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[
9,
11
]
],
"english": "Come here (now, please)",
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"translation": "Come here (now, please)",
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}
],
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"Cebuano verbs",
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}
Download raw JSONL data for ba meaning in Cebuano (3.9kB)
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"title": "ba",
"trace": ""
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