"cauchemar" meaning in French

See cauchemar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɔʃ.maʁ/, /koʃ.maʁ/ Audio: Fr-cauchemar.ogg [Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-cauchemar.wav [Switzerland, Valais], LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-cauchemar.wav [France, Toulouse], LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-cauchemar.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-cauchemar.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-cauchemar.wav [France, Lyon], LL-Q150 (fra)-X-Javier-cauchemar.wav [France] (note: Massy) Forms: cauchemars [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. By surface analysis, cauque + mar. Compare Walloon tchôcmwår. * First element from Old French cauche, from the verb chauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), from calx (“heel”), of uncertain origin. * Second element from Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), from *mer- (“to die”); related to the homograph English mare. More at mare. Etymology templates: {{root|fr|ine-pro|*mer-}}, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|cauchemare|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French cauchemare, {{inh+|fr|frm|cauchemare}} Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, {{inh|fr|fro|cauquemare}} Old French cauquemare, {{surf|fr|cauque|mar|nocat=1}} By surface analysis, cauque + mar, {{cog|wa|tchôcmwår}} Walloon tchôcmwår, {{m+|fro|cauche|w=1}} Old French cauche, {{der|fr|la|calcare||to trample, tread on}} Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), {{der|fr|frk|*marā|t=evil spirit}} Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), {{der|fr|gmw-pro|*marā}} Proto-West Germanic *marā, {{der|fr|gem-pro|*marǭ||nightmare, incubus}} Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), {{der|fr|ine-pro|*mor-||malicious female spirit}} Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), {{cog|en|mare|}} English mare Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} cauchemar m (plural cauchemars)
  1. nightmare Tags: masculine Derived forms: cauchemardant, cauchemardement, cauchemarder, cauchemardesque

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Mauritian Creole",
      "lang_code": "mfe",
      "word": "kosmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cauchemar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "koŝmaro"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "košmaar"
    },
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      "lang_code": "io",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "košmaras"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "koszmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "coșmar"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
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          "lang_code": "be",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
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          "word": "кашмар"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳošmari",
          "word": "კოშმარი"
        },
        {
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          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳašmari",
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard"
          ],
          "word": "კაშმარი"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "lang_code": "kk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
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          "word": "кошмар"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
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          "lang_code": "be",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "kašmar",
          "word": "кашмар"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳošmari",
          "word": "კოშმარი"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳašmari",
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard"
          ],
          "word": "კაშმარი"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "lang_code": "kk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "košmar",
          "word": "кошмар"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed",
        "pre-1918 spelling"
      ],
      "roman": "košmár",
      "word": "кошма́ръ"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Latin script",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "word": "košmar"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Cyrillic script",
          "lang_code": "sh",
          "word": "кошмар"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "kojmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "koshmar",
      "word": "קאָשמאַר"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mer-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
      "expansion": "I",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "cauchemare",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French cauchemare",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "cauchemare"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Middle French cauchemare",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cauquemare"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cauquemare",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "cauque",
        "3": "mar",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, cauque + mar",
      "name": "surf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wa",
        "2": "tchôcmwår"
      },
      "expansion": "Walloon tchôcmwår",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "cauche",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cauche",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "calcare",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to trample, tread on"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*marā",
        "t": "evil spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*marā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *marā",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*marǭ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "nightmare, incubus"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mor-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "malicious female spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mare",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "English mare",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. By surface analysis, cauque + mar. Compare Walloon tchôcmwår.\n* First element from Old French cauche, from the verb chauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), from calx (“heel”), of uncertain origin.\n* Second element from Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), from *mer- (“to die”); related to the homograph English mare. More at mare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cauchemars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "cauchemar m (plural cauchemars)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "cauche",
        "mar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Sleep",
          "orig": "fr:Sleep",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "cauchemardant"
        },
        {
          "word": "cauchemardement"
        },
        {
          "word": "cauchemarder"
        },
        {
          "word": "cauchemardesque"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: rêve"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              60,
              71
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              51,
              62
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I couldn't sleep last night because I had too many nightmares.",
          "text": "Je n'ai pas pu dormir hier soir parce que j'ai fait trop de cauchemars.",
          "translation": "I couldn't sleep last night because I had too many nightmares.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              22,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              30
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Was it a dream or a nightmare?",
          "text": "C'était un rêve ou un cauchemar?",
          "translation": "Was it a dream or a nightmare?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              52,
              63
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              60,
              71
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He was tossing and turning all night, I think [that] he had nightmares.",
          "text": "Il a remué toute la nuit, je crois qu'il a fait des cauchemars.",
          "translation": "He was tossing and turning all night, I think [that] he had nightmares.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              65,
              75
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              59,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I had an accident this morning! I'm okay but it was a true nightmare!",
          "text": "J'ai eu un accident ce matin! Je vais bien mais ça a été un vrai cauchemar!",
          "translation": "I had an accident this morning! I'm okay but it was a true nightmare!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nightmare"
      ],
      "id": "en-cauchemar-fr-noun-bfpe2Zdh",
      "links": [
        [
          "nightmare",
          "nightmare"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kɔʃ.maʁ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/koʃ.maʁ/"
    },
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        "Valais"
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        "Vosges"
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}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cauchemardant"
    },
    {
      "word": "cauchemardement"
    },
    {
      "word": "cauchemarder"
    },
    {
      "word": "cauchemardesque"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Mauritian Creole",
      "lang_code": "mfe",
      "word": "kosmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cauchemar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "koŝmaro"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "lang_code": "et",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "košmaar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "koshmaro"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "lang_code": "lt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "košmaras"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "koszmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "coșmar"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "lang_code": "be",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "kašmar",
          "word": "кашмар"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳošmari",
          "word": "კოშმარი"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "ḳašmari",
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard"
          ],
          "word": "კაშმარი"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "lang_code": "kk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "košmar",
          "word": "кошмар"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
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        "borrowed"
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          "lang_code": "be",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "kašmar",
          "word": "кашмар"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
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            "borrowed"
          ],
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          ],
          "word": "კაშმარი"
        },
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          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "lang_code": "kk",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
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          "word": "кошмар"
        }
      ],
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        "borrowed",
        "pre-1918 spelling"
      ],
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      "word": "кошма́ръ"
    },
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          "lang": "Latin script",
          "lang_code": "sh",
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        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "sh",
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        "borrowed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "košmar",
      "word": "кошмар"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "lang_code": "vo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "kojmar"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "koshmar",
      "word": "קאָשמאַר"
    }
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        "3": "*mer-"
      },
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      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "i",
        "3": "I"
      },
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    },
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        "2": "frm",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "2": "frm",
        "3": "cauchemare"
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    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "fro",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old French cauquemare",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "cauque",
        "3": "mar",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, cauque + mar",
      "name": "surf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wa",
        "2": "tchôcmwår"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "cauche",
        "w": "1"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "calcare",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to trample, tread on"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*marā",
        "t": "evil spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*marā"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *marā",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*marǭ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "nightmare, incubus"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mor-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "malicious female spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mare",
        "3": ""
      },
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      "form": "cauchemars",
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        "plural"
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        "cauche",
        "mar"
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    }
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        "French terms inherited from Middle French",
        "French terms inherited from Old French",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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          "english": "I couldn't sleep last night because I had too many nightmares.",
          "text": "Je n'ai pas pu dormir hier soir parce que j'ai fait trop de cauchemars.",
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              20,
              30
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          "english": "Was it a dream or a nightmare?",
          "text": "C'était un rêve ou un cauchemar?",
          "translation": "Was it a dream or a nightmare?",
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          "english": "He was tossing and turning all night, I think [that] he had nightmares.",
          "text": "Il a remué toute la nuit, je crois qu'il a fait des cauchemars.",
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          "english": "I had an accident this morning! I'm okay but it was a true nightmare!",
          "text": "J'ai eu un accident ce matin! Je vais bien mais ça a été un vrai cauchemar!",
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        }
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      "ipa": "/kɔʃ.maʁ/"
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      "ipa": "/koʃ.maʁ/"
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}

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