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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "expressing purpose (grammar)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "účelový"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "expressing purpose (grammar)",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "účelový"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "expressing purpose (grammar)",
"word": "intencional"
}
],
"word": "purposive"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ive",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "purpose",
"3": "ive"
},
"expansion": "purpose + -ive",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "purposive (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Grammar"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 393:",
"text": "This purposive was described by speakers as referring to the action which can be observed at the moment of speech; this is why it is termed ‘visual’.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"mood",
"mood"
],
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
],
[
"course",
"course"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpəːpəsɪv/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɚpəsɪv/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "purposive"
}
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