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"english": "[…] these seem to be more points worth noting […]",
"ref": "1866, Guérineau de Boisvillette, Ce qu'il a laissé!, page 56",
"text": "[...] ce paraissent être encore là des points à noter [...]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"it, this, that"
],
"links": [
[
"être",
"être#French"
],
[
"it",
"it"
],
[
"this",
"this"
],
[
"that",
"that"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, subject of verbs other than être) it, this, that"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of verbs other than être"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"subjective"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sə/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sø/",
"tags": [
"Parisian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ə"
},
{
"homophone": "se"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-ce.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/Fr-ce.ogg/Fr-ce.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Fr-ce.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Paris"
],
"text": "Audio (France, Paris)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "before the vowels /ɛ/, /y/",
"word": "c’"
},
{
"english": "before the vowel /a/",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "ç’"
}
],
"word": "ce"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ('before-vowel',): 'or mute h cet' in 'ce m (before a vowel or mute h cet, feminine cette, plural ces)'",
"path": [
"ce"
],
"section": "French",
"subsection": "determiner",
"title": "ce",
"trace": ""
}
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