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"english": "to think aloud",
"text": "penser tout haut",
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"english": "I am unable to unite two ideas; your aspect has dazzled my mind. I am not thinking anything any longer, I admire.",
"roman": "Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m’a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j’admire.",
"text": "1845, Alexandre Dumas, La Reine Margot, vol. I, chap. 4",
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"english": "You're not here in order to think, but to do the movements one has told you to perform… We don't need any visionaries in our factory. It's chimpanzees we need…",
"ref": "1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit:",
"text": "Vous n’êtes pas venu ici pour penser, mais pour faire les gestes qu’on vous commandera d’exécuter… Nous n’avons pas besoin d’imaginatifs dans notre usine. C’est de chimpanzés dont nous avons besoin…",
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"english": "My task is rather aimed at teaching them how to think, not what to think. Having said that, I hope that, when they have learned to think, my pupils will be able to reflect by themselves rather than let others do it in their stead.",
"roman": "Ma tâche vise davantage à leur enseigner comment penser et non que penser. J’espère ainsi que lorsqu’ils auront appris à penser, mes élèves pourront réfléchir par eux-mêmes plutôt que de laisser les autres le faire à leur place.",
"text": "1992, David E. Walker, “La pauvreté de la foi”, dans Le Québec sceptique, n° 21 (hiver 1992), p. 32",
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"english": "You are not where you think you are.",
"text": "Vous n’en êtes pas où vous pensez.",
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"english": "It is ten kilometres, I think, from your place to my place.",
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"english": "I will come and see you tomorrow, I suppose.",
"text": "J’irai vous voir demain, je pense.",
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"text": "La chose n’est pas si facile qu’on le pense.",
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"text": "Je ne pensais pas que vous vous méprendriez sur le sens de mes paroles.",
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"english": "I believed I had been too amiable or familiar with Adam Johnson, so I drafted a cold and distant text: […]",
"ref": "1999, Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements, Éditions Albin Michel S. A., p. 11",
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"english": "I thought he was a friend.",
"text": "Je pensais qu’il était de vos amis.",
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"english": "I want to agree with you, but I don't think we need his help.",
"text": "Je veux être d’accord avec toi, mais je ne pense pas que nous ayons besoin de son aide.",
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"english": "I agree with your view.",
"text": "Je pense comme vous.",
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{
"english": "He doesn't say anything he doesn't believe.",
"text": "Il ne dit rien qu’il ne pense.",
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"english": "Cavalierly state your opinion.",
"text": "Dites librement ce que vous pensez.",
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{
"english": "I hope he doesn't believe what he is saying.",
"text": "J’espère qu’il ne pense pas ce qu’il dit.",
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"english": "Tell me how you think about it.",
"text": "Faites-moi connaître votre façon de penser.",
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"english": "(1935, punning at the interlocutor's lack of belief in his own statement)",
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"text": "Pensez-vous ?",
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"english": "This gazette wasn't afraid to say what it thought, even to persons of the highest ranks.",
"roman": "Cette feuille ne craignait pas de dire ce qu’elle pensait, même aux personnages les plus hauts placés.",
"text": "1945, Fernand Mitton, La Presse française, vol. 2, chez Guy Le Prat, p. 172",
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"text": "Il pense être plus habile que les autres.",
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"english": "He didn't think he was being observed.",
"text": "Il ne pensait pas être observé.",
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{
"english": "I thought I was going to die.",
"text": "J’ai pensé mourir.",
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{
"english": "The other day was to be baleful for us. (Note: This impersonal use, even if in use by the classics, is criticized as improper.)",
"roman": "Le lendemain pensa nous être funeste.",
"text": "1817, Marquise Donnissan de Larochejaquelein, Mémoires, L.-G. Michaud, Paris, chap. II, p. 33",
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"english": "Rebaudengo was a rascal, and if I think of all the things I have done afterwards, I am under the impression of not having played tricks but to rascals.",
"roman": "Rebaudengo était une fripouille et, si je pense à tout ce que j’ai fait après, j’ai l’impression de n’avoir fait des fripouilleries qu’à des fripouilles.",
"text": "2011, Umberto Eco, Le cimetière de Prague, traduit de l'italien par Jean-Noël Schifano, ed. Grasset, chap. 6",
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"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
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"indicative",
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"plural",
"second-person"
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},
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"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
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},
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"future",
"indicative",
"singular"
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},
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"form": "penseras",
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"future",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
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"form": "pensera",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural"
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "penseriez",
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"conditional",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
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"conditional",
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]
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{
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"singular",
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"present",
"singular",
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"second-person",
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"subjunctive"
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"singular",
"subjunctive",
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"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
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{
"form": "pensiez",
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"plural",
"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
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"present",
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"form": "pensasse",
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"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
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},
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"second-person",
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"singular",
"subjunctive",
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"plural",
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"plural",
"second-person"
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"english": "to think aloud",
"text": "penser tout haut",
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{
"english": "I am unable to unite two ideas; your aspect has dazzled my mind. I am not thinking anything any longer, I admire.",
"roman": "Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m’a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j’admire.",
"text": "1845, Alexandre Dumas, La Reine Margot, vol. I, chap. 4",
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{
"english": "You're not here in order to think, but to do the movements one has told you to perform… We don't need any visionaries in our factory. It's chimpanzees we need…",
"ref": "1932, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit:",
"text": "Vous n’êtes pas venu ici pour penser, mais pour faire les gestes qu’on vous commandera d’exécuter… Nous n’avons pas besoin d’imaginatifs dans notre usine. C’est de chimpanzés dont nous avons besoin…",
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{
"english": "My task is rather aimed at teaching them how to think, not what to think. Having said that, I hope that, when they have learned to think, my pupils will be able to reflect by themselves rather than let others do it in their stead.",
"roman": "Ma tâche vise davantage à leur enseigner comment penser et non que penser. J’espère ainsi que lorsqu’ils auront appris à penser, mes élèves pourront réfléchir par eux-mêmes plutôt que de laisser les autres le faire à leur place.",
"text": "1992, David E. Walker, “La pauvreté de la foi”, dans Le Québec sceptique, n° 21 (hiver 1992), p. 32",
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"english": "You are not where you think you are.",
"text": "Vous n’en êtes pas où vous pensez.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "It is ten kilometres, I think, from your place to my place.",
"text": "Il y a, je pense, dix kilomètres de chez vous chez moi.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I will come and see you tomorrow, I suppose.",
"text": "J’irai vous voir demain, je pense.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The thing is not as simple as one might believe.",
"text": "La chose n’est pas si facile qu’on le pense.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I didn't imagine you would fail to grasp the meaning of what I said.",
"text": "Je ne pensais pas que vous vous méprendriez sur le sens de mes paroles.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I believed I had been too amiable or familiar with Adam Johnson, so I drafted a cold and distant text: […]",
"ref": "1999, Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements, Éditions Albin Michel S. A., p. 11",
"text": "Je pensai que j’avais été trop aimable ou familière avec Adam Johnson et je rédigeai un texte froid et distant: […].",
"type": "quotation"
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"english": "I thought he was a friend.",
"text": "Je pensais qu’il était de vos amis.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I want to agree with you, but I don't think we need his help.",
"text": "Je veux être d’accord avec toi, mais je ne pense pas que nous ayons besoin de son aide.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I agree with your view.",
"text": "Je pense comme vous.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He doesn't say anything he doesn't believe.",
"text": "Il ne dit rien qu’il ne pense.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Cavalierly state your opinion.",
"text": "Dites librement ce que vous pensez.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I hope he doesn't believe what he is saying.",
"text": "J’espère qu’il ne pense pas ce qu’il dit.",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "Tell me how you think about it.",
"text": "Faites-moi connaître votre façon de penser.",
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},
{
"english": "(1935, punning at the interlocutor's lack of belief in his own statement)",
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"text": "Pensez-vous ?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "This gazette wasn't afraid to say what it thought, even to persons of the highest ranks.",
"roman": "Cette feuille ne craignait pas de dire ce qu’elle pensait, même aux personnages les plus hauts placés.",
"text": "1945, Fernand Mitton, La Presse française, vol. 2, chez Guy Le Prat, p. 172",
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"type": "example"
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"english": "Think of me.",
"text": "Pensez à moi.",
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{
"english": "He thinks only of his beloved.",
"text": "Il ne pense qu’à celle qu’il aime.",
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"english": "He believes he is smarter than others.",
"text": "Il pense être plus habile que les autres.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He didn't think he was being observed.",
"text": "Il ne pensait pas être observé.",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "I thought I was going to die.",
"text": "J’ai pensé mourir.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The other day was to be baleful for us. (Note: This impersonal use, even if in use by the classics, is criticized as improper.)",
"roman": "Le lendemain pensa nous être funeste.",
"text": "1817, Marquise Donnissan de Larochejaquelein, Mémoires, L.-G. Michaud, Paris, chap. II, p. 33",
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"english": "He is a man who always thinks badly of others.",
"text": "C’est un homme qui pense toujours mal des autres.",
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{
"english": "(literally, “I don't think either well or badly of this affair.”)",
"roman": "I am indifferent to this affair.",
"text": "Je ne pense de cette affaire ni bien ni mal.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "What do you think about this man?",
"text": "Que pensez-vous de cet homme ?",
"type": "example"
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"english": "to be thinking of doing something",
"text": "penser de faire quelque chose",
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"type": "example"
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],
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"to reflect on something"
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"english": "Evil comes without one thinking of it.",
"text": "Le mal vient sans qu’on y pense.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to do or say something without meaning to harm",
"text": "faire ou dire une chose sans penser à mal",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "What are you thinking?",
"text": "À quoi pensez-vous ?",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "To have a bad intention.",
"ref": "1393, G. E. Brereton, J. M. Ferrier, editors, Ménagier, I, VI, p. 78:",
"text": "Penser à mal.",
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},
{
"english": "Rebaudengo was a rascal, and if I think of all the things I have done afterwards, I am under the impression of not having played tricks but to rascals.",
"roman": "Rebaudengo était une fripouille et, si je pense à tout ce que j’ai fait après, j’ai l’impression de n’avoir fait des fripouilleries qu’à des fripouilles.",
"text": "2011, Umberto Eco, Le cimetière de Prague, traduit de l'italien par Jean-Noël Schifano, ed. Grasset, chap. 6",
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],
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"english": "I fancied paying you a visit.",
"text": "Je pensais aller vous voir.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "What do you intend to do?",
"text": "Que pensez-vous faire ?",
"type": "example"
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"to intend to do, aim at doing something"
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],
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},
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"english": "He's a man who never says what he thinks.",
"text": "C’est un homme qui ne dit jamais ce qu’il pense.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He thinks a lot of things he doesn't say.",
"text": "Il pense beaucoup de choses qu’il ne dit pas.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623)"
],
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"(transitive) to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623)"
],
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},
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{
"english": "What are you playing at by behaving like this?",
"text": "À quoi pensez-vous de vous conduire ainsi ?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I am too much your friend to think of harming you.",
"text": "Je suis trop de vos amis pour avoir pensé à vous nuire.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I considered visiting you yesterday.",
"text": "Je pensais à aller vous voir hier.",
"type": "example"
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],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with à + infinitive) to intend to do, aim to do something"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with à + infinitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French terms with obsolete senses",
"French terms with usage examples",
"Requests for translations of French usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "penser mal",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to intend to do something bad"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with mal, obsolete) to intend to do something bad"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with mal"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He has welcomed us admirably, he has thought of everything.",
"text": "Il nous a reçus admirablement, il a pensé à tout.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to take care of"
],
"links": [
[
"take care",
"take care"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with à + object) to take care of"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with à + object"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French terms with usage examples",
"Requests for translations of French usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "bien penser",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles"
],
"links": [
[
"accordance",
"accordance"
],
[
"agreed",
"agreed"
],
[
"principles",
"principles"
]
],
"qualifier": "moral",
"raw_glosses": [
"(with bien, in politics, religion, moral) to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in politics",
"with bien"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "to think finely, nobly, in a singular way, boldly",
"text": "penser finement, noblement, singulièrement, hardiment",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to think with accuracy",
"text": "penser avec justesse.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to think in the right way, to be right-thinking",
"text": "penser juste",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property"
],
"links": [
[
"intellectual",
"intellectual"
],
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"preference",
"preference"
],
[
"property",
"property"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with adverb or adverbial expression) to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with adverb or adverbial expression"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɑ̃.se/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-penser.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/Fr-penser.ogg/Fr-penser.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Fr-penser.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "pansé"
},
{
"homophone": "pansée"
},
{
"homophone": "pansées"
},
{
"homophone": "pansés"
},
{
"homophone": "panser"
},
{
"homophone": "pansez"
},
{
"homophone": "pensé"
},
{
"homophone": "pensée"
},
{
"homophone": "pensées"
},
{
"homophone": "pensés"
},
{
"homophone": "pensez"
}
],
"word": "penser"
}
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