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],
"word": "Auftakt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anakrusis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anakruza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przedtakt"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacruse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatákt",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зата́кт"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "у̏зма̄х"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ȕzmāh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anacrusa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(music) an unstressed note (or notes) before the first strong beat of a phrase",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "upptakt"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"anacrusis"
],
"word": "anacrusis"
}
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