See capisce in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Detective Brodka: Hey kid, one more thing: if you ever set foot in this store again, you'll be spending Christmas in juvenile hall! Capisce? / Bart: [silently stares in confusion] / Brodka: Well, do you understand? / Bart: Everything except \"capisce.\"",
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"text": "I mean, if you were coming into the plant for the long haul, God forbid, then you'd have to think seriously about the money. Capiche?",
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"text": "That being said, if you hurt my boy I will introduce you to a whole new realm of pain and suffering. We're talking stuff that would make Heironymous Bosch^([sic – meaning Hieronymous]) shit his britches, capisce?",
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"ref": "2020 July 17, Intelligent Systems, Paper Mario: The Origami King, Nintendo, via YouTube, level/area: Sea Tower:",
"text": "Tape, the Shifty Sticker: And you, origami kid… Be a good goil and run back to Olly. It's past your beddy-bye time, capisce?",
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"word": "capisti?"
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"sense": "I got it, I heard you, I understand",
"word": "selvä"
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"roman": "haskacʻar",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "հասկացա՞ր"
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"roman": "haskacʻakʻ",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "հասկացա՞ք"
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"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "明白吗？"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "begrepen?"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "gesnopen?"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "snappie?"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "onko selvä?"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "tuliko selväksi?"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "pigé?"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "compris?"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "verstanden?"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "kapiert?"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "érted?"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "világos?"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "értetek?"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "világosak?"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "capito?"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "intesi?"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"tags": [
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"word": "capisci?"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"word": "capisce?"
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"code": "it",
"english": "to many people",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"word": "capite?"
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"alt": "わかるか？",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "wakaru ka?",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "分かるか？"
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"alt": "わかったか？",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "wakatta ka?",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "分かったか？"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "faham?"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "rozumiesz?"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"word": "entende?"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "entendes?"
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"word": "entendem?"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "entendeis?"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"roman": "ferštejn?",
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"word": "ферштейн?"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "anderstend?",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "андерстенд?"
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"roman": "aljó, garaž!",
"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "capisti?"
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "à' caputu?"
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "begrips?"
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
"word": "förstått?"
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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"sense": "did you hear me?, get it?, understood?",
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