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"roman": "trójka",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тро́йка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "тро́јка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "trójka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trojka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trojka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "troica"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trojka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "carriage",
"word": "troyka"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tríjka",
"sense": "carriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "трі́йка"
}
],
"word": "troika"
}
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