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"text": "Olen vain ihminen.",
"translation": "I am just/only a human.",
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"english": "The shirt cost just/only two euros.",
"text": "Paita maksoi vain kaksi euroa.",
"translation": "The shirt cost just/only two euros.",
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}
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"only, merely, exclusively, solely, just"
],
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"text": "mikä vain",
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"english": "whenever",
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"text": "milloin vain",
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"ever (when used with an interrogative pronoun)"
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"_dis": "12 9 10 22 1 0 1 17 26 0 2",
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23
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"english": "You went there, didn't you?",
"text": "Kävit siellä, etkö vain?",
"translation": "You went there, didn't you?",
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17,
21
]
],
"english": "This is it, right?",
"text": "Tämä on se, eikö vain?",
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"english": "\"May I eat the last piece of chocolate?\" \"Go ahead (and eat it).\"",
"text": "\"Saanko syödä viimeisen suklaapalan?\" \"Syö vain.\"",
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"english": "Definitely don't assume I ate the last slice of cake.",
"text": "Älä vain oleta minun syöneen viimeistä kakkupalaa.",
"translation": "Definitely don't assume I ate the last slice of cake.",
"type": "example"
}
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"go ahead, be my guest (in positive); definitely (in negative)"
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"be my guest"
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"definitely"
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"(with a verb in imperative) go ahead, be my guest (in positive); definitely (in negative)"
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"word": "sen kuin"
},
{
"word": "sen kun"
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"ipa": "/ˈʋɑi̯n/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʋɑ̝i̯n]"
},
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}
],
"word": "vain"
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"Rhymes:Finnish/ɑin",
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"text": "Olen vain ihminen.",
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13,
17
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"english": "The shirt cost just/only two euros.",
"text": "Paita maksoi vain kaksi euroa.",
"translation": "The shirt cost just/only two euros.",
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8
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"collocation"
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"text": "mikä vain",
"translation": "whatever",
"type": "example"
},
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8,
12
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],
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4,
8
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"english": "whenever",
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"collocation"
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"ever (when used with an interrogative pronoun)"
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"english": "You went there, didn't you?",
"text": "Kävit siellä, etkö vain?",
"translation": "You went there, didn't you?",
"type": "example"
},
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17,
21
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],
"english": "This is it, right?",
"text": "Tämä on se, eikö vain?",
"translation": "This is it, right?",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"An emphatic word used with the negative verb and -kö for tag questions."
],
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[
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"-ko#Finnish"
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],
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"english": "\"May I eat the last piece of chocolate?\" \"Go ahead (and eat it).\"",
"text": "\"Saanko syödä viimeisen suklaapalan?\" \"Syö vain.\"",
"translation": "\"May I eat the last piece of chocolate?\" \"Go ahead (and eat it).\"",
"type": "example"
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4,
8
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10
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"english": "Definitely don't assume I ate the last slice of cake.",
"text": "Älä vain oleta minun syöneen viimeistä kakkupalaa.",
"translation": "Definitely don't assume I ate the last slice of cake.",
"type": "example"
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}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈʋɑi̯n/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʋɑ̝i̯n]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑin"
}
],
"word": "vain"
}
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