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"form": "perfectives",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "perfective (plural perfectives)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"A perfective verb form."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"verb",
"verb"
],
[
"form",
"form"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) A perfective verb form."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktɪv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛktɪv"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wánchéngshì",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"word": "完成式"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perfectif"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"word": "tʼáá íídą́ą́ʼ"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perfectivo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soveršénnyj vid",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "соверше́нный вид"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "perfective verb form",
"word": "perfektiv"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Perfective aspect"
],
"word": "perfective"
}
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