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"english": "Do you know the way to Schönebeck?",
"text": "Kennst du den Weg nach Schönebeck?",
"translation": "Do you know the way to Schönebeck?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "on the way",
"text": "auf dem Weg",
"translation": "on the way",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"route, way (to get from one place to another)"
],
"links": [
[
"route",
"route"
],
[
"way",
"way"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"German terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
16,
19
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
11,
14
]
],
"english": "We found a way to extract milk from oats.",
"text": "Wir haben einen Weg gefunden, Milch aus Hafer zu erhalten.",
"translation": "We found a way to extract milk from oats.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "ways and means",
"text": "Mittel und Wege",
"translation": "ways and means",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"method, way (of doing something)"
],
"links": [
[
"method",
"method"
],
[
"way",
"way"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"German terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "in the way",
"text": "in den Weg",
"translation": "in the way",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "out of the way",
"text": "aus dem Weg",
"translation": "out of the way",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement"
],
"links": [
[
"course",
"course"
],
[
"path",
"path"
],
[
"space",
"space"
],
[
"movement",
"movement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(with preposition) someone's planned course or path, the space needed for movement"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with preposition"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"strong"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[veːk]",
"tags": [
"standard"
]
},
{
"audio": "De-Weg.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/De-Weg.ogg/De-Weg.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/De-Weg.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "De-Weg2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d3/De-Weg2.ogg/De-Weg2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/De-Weg2.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "[veːç]",
"note": "northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial"
},
{
"audio": "De-Weg3.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/De-Weg3.ogg/De-Weg3.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/De-Weg3.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Weg"
}
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