See -te in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
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{
"text": "vendre (“sell”) + -te → vente (“sale”)"
},
{
"text": "perdre (“lose”) + -te → perte (“loss”)"
},
{
"text": "attendre (“wait, expect”) + -te → attente (“expectation”)"
},
{
"text": "fuir (“flee, (of liquids) leak”) + -te → fuite (“flight (act of fleeing), leak”)"
}
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"forms result nouns from -dre and a few other third-group verbs"
],
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"(not productive) forms result nouns from -dre and a few other third-group verbs"
],
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"text": "vendre (“sell”) + -te → vente (“sale”)"
},
{
"text": "perdre (“lose”) + -te → perte (“loss”)"
},
{
"text": "attendre (“wait, expect”) + -te → attente (“expectation”)"
},
{
"text": "fuir (“flee, (of liquids) leak”) + -te → fuite (“flight (act of fleeing), leak”)"
}
],
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"forms result nouns from -dre and a few other third-group verbs"
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],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"idiomatic",
"morpheme"
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}
],
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}
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"msg": "unrecognized head form: noun-forming suffix",
"path": [
"-te"
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"section": "French",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "-te",
"trace": ""
}
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