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translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "21 79", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "10 90", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2011, Seppo Kittilä, Katya Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, page 6:", "text": "These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The state of being alive." ], "id": "en-animacy-en-noun-PndBZpbk", "links": [ [ "biology", "biology" ], [ "alive", "alive" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(biology) The state of being alive." ], "tags": [ "uncountable", "usually" ], "topics": [ "biology", "natural-sciences" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "oduševénost", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "одушеве́ност" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "zh", "lang": "Chinese", "sense": "quality of being animate", "word": "有生性" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "zh", "lang": "Chinese", "sense": "quality of being animate", "word": "生命度" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "životnost" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "animéité" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "animacité" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Belebtheit" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "animacidade" }, { "_dis1": "40 60", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "oduševljónnostʹ", "sense": "quality of being animate", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "одушевлённость" } ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "animacy" ], "word": "animacy" }
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