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"text": "Everyone must do it themselves.",
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"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 18",
"text": "In fact she was so busy doing all the things that anyone might, who finds themselves alone in an empty house, that she did not notice at first when it began to turn dusk and the rooms to grow dim.",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "себе си"
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "他們自己"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tāmen zìjǐ",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "他们自己"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "itsensä"
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "sich"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "maguk"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "magukat"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "karera-jishin",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "彼ら自身"
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "tʼáá hó"
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"code": "se",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "iežaska du"
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "se"
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"code": "rom",
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"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "pen"
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"code": "rmf",
"lang": "Kalo Finnish Romani",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "peen"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "sebjá",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "себя́"
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"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "se"
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"code": "tyv",
"lang": "Tuvan",
"roman": "bottarı",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "боттары"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "sebé",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "себе́"
},
{
"_dis1": "55 45",
"code": "sah",
"lang": "Yakut",
"roman": "beyelere",
"sense": "the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun",
"word": "бэйэлэрэ"
},
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"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "janý sámi",
"sense": "emphatic: they",
"word": "яны́ са́мі"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "samite",
"sense": "emphatic: they",
"word": "самите"
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"word": "eux-mêmes"
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"_dis1": "50 50",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
"word": "same"
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"word": "eles mesmos"
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"sense": "emphatic: they",
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"roman": "oní sámi",
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"word": "они́ са́ми"
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"_dis1": "50 50",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "itsensä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "itseään"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "itselleen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "itse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "ite"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "önmaguk"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "önmagukat"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "karera-jishin",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "彼ら自身"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ipsos"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ipsas"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ipsa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sebjá",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "себя́"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "the persons of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition",
"word": "okis"
}
],
"word": "themselves"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Northern Sami: 'iežaska du', originally 'iežaska du'",
"path": [
"themselves"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "themselves",
"trace": ""
}
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