"desto" meaning in German

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      "text": "→ Danish: desto"
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      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: desto"
    },
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      "text": "Norwegian Nynorsk: desto"
    },
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          "expansion": "→ Swedish: desto",
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    },
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        "2": "des"
      },
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "goh",
        "2": "der",
        "3": "daz",
        "4": "the; that, it",
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      },
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    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Dutch des",
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        "2": "te"
      },
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        "2": "the#Etymology 2",
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      },
      "expansion": "English the ... the",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "des",
        "3": "die",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "des + die",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German des diu, where des and diu are the genitive and instrumental case forms of Old High German daz n (“the; that, it”) respectively. Compare Dutch des te and English the ... the. Etymologically equivalent to des + die.",
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      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "nichtsdestoweniger"
        },
        {
          "word": "nichtsdestominder"
        },
        {
          "word": "nichtsdestotrotz"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "The more the better!",
          "text": "Je mehr, desto besser!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The sooner the better!",
          "text": "Je eher, desto besser!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the (forming the parallel comparative with je)"
      ],
      "id": "en-desto-de-conj-~U~GmYuD",
      "links": [
        [
          "the",
          "the"
        ],
        [
          "je",
          "je#German"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "umso"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛstoː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-desto.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/De-desto.ogg/De-desto.ogg.mp3",
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    }
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  "word": "desto"
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      "word": "nichtsdestoweniger"
    },
    {
      "word": "nichtsdestominder"
    },
    {
      "word": "nichtsdestotrotz"
    }
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      ],
      "text": "→ Danish: desto"
    },
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    },
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        }
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      "text": "Norwegian Bokmål: desto"
    },
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      },
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      "name": "m+"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Dutch des",
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    },
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        "2": "te"
      },
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    },
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        "2": "des",
        "3": "die",
        "nocat": "1"
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  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "conj",
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        "German terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "German terms with audio links",
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        {
          "english": "The more the better!",
          "text": "Je mehr, desto besser!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "The sooner the better!",
          "text": "Je eher, desto besser!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "the (forming the parallel comparative with je)"
      ],
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          "the"
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          "je",
          "je#German"
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          "word": "umso"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛstoː/"
    },
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      "audio": "De-desto.ogg",
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
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}