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"(intransitive, figurative) To make progress."
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"(intransitive) To modernize."
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"sense": "to cause to make progress",
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"sense": "to make progress",
"word": "komme seg videre"
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"sense": "to make progress",
"word": "ir adelante"
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"sense": "to make progress",
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