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"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
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"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
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"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
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"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ici"
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"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ibo"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-iu"
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{
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"word": "-iu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-czy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ivo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-tivo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "-iv"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ivă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "-ívnyj",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-и́вный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "-ivan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-ivna"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "-ivno"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "-ivo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "-iva"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-iv"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ibo"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-ici"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "-if"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "-iv",
"sense": "adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to",
"word": "־יוו"
}
],
"word": "-ive"
}
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