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"toilet",
"toilet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, informal) to need to go to the toilet"
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmutə(n)/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-moeten.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/09/Nl-moeten.ogg/Nl-moeten.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Nl-moeten.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-utən"
}
],
"word": "moeten"
}
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