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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "known and unmentioned person",
"word": "du-vet-vilka (said to c sg, about multiple persons)"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "known and unmentioned person",
"word": "ni-vet-vilka (said to c pl, about multiple persons)"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "known and unmentioned person",
"word": "falan, falan kişi"
}
],
"word": "you-know-who"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to m sg vs. taʕrifu man",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to c du vs. taʕrifāni man",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to m pl vs. taʕrifūna man",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to m sg vs. ata-yodea-mi",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to m pl vs. atem-yod'ei-mi",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to c sg, familiarly vs. sam znáješʹ kto",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": said to c sg, courteously, or to c pl vs. sámi znájete kto",
"path": [
"you-know-who"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "you-know-who",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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