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"2": "VL.",
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},
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},
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},
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{
"english": "The rain fell and into the channels ran / Whatever of it was not absorbed by the ground",
"roman": "La pioggia cadde, e a’ foſſati venne / Di lei ciò che la terra non ſofferſe",
"text": "1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161",
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},
{
"english": "[…] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.",
"ref": "ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 228",
"text": "[…] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscessero lei esser quella di Lorenzo.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "[…] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]",
"ref": "ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 512",
"text": "[…] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolse lei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The banana of Strangeland forms the basis of the island’s economy. Without it, life here would be very tough.",
"ref": "1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli, published 2015, page 76",
"text": "La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.",
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},
{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "l'"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "-gli"
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{
"word": "glie"
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{
"word": "se2"
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{
"word": "sé"
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{
"word": "ci"
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{
"word": "c'"
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{
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{
"word": "ne"
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{
"word": "n'"
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{
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{
"word": "la"
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{
"word": "La1"
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{
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{
"word": "-La1"
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{
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{
"word": "Le1"
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{
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{
"word": "-Le1"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "ce"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "Vi4"
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{
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{
"word": "V'4"
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{
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{
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{
"word": "ve"
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{
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{
"word": "Loro1"
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{
"word": "si"
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{
"word": "li"
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{
"word": "Li1"
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{
"word": "-li"
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{
"word": "-Li1"
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{
"word": "se"
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{
"word": "le"
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{
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{
"word": "1"
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{
"english": "with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects",
"word": "Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects. Unlike the singular forms"
},
{
"word": "the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language"
},
{
"word": "and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead"
},
{
"word": "2"
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{
"english": "one",
"word": "Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning"
},
{
"word": "and to form the passive"
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{
"word": "3"
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{
"word": "Often replaced by gli"
},
{
"word": "-gli in informal language"
},
{
"word": "4"
},
{
"english": "capitalisation optional",
"word": "Formal"
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{
"word": "in many regions"
},
{
"english": "compare with French vous",
"word": "can refer to just one person"
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"Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"english": "The rain fell and into the channels ran / Whatever of it was not absorbed by the ground",
"roman": "La pioggia cadde, e a’ foſſati venne / Di lei ciò che la terra non ſofferſe",
"text": "1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "[…] they saw the cloth and the head wrapped inside it, which was not yet sufficiently decomposed that they could not help but identify it, from the curly hair, as being Lorenzo’s.",
"ref": "ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 228",
"text": "[…] videro il drappo, et in quello la testa, non ancor sì consumata, che essi alla capellatura crespa non conoscessero lei esser quella di Lorenzo.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "[…] Philomena is in the right as to what she has said upon friendship; and it was with reason she complained, last of all, of its being in such little esteem with mankind […]",
"ref": "ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tipografia della Società Belgica (1841), page 512",
"text": "[…] Filomena in ciò che dell’amistà dice, racconta il vero, e con ragione nel fine delle sue parole si dolse lei oggi così poco da’ mortali esser gradita.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The banana of Strangeland forms the basis of the island’s economy. Without it, life here would be very tough.",
"ref": "1984, Stefano Benni, Stranalandia, Feltrinelli, published 2015, page 76",
"text": "La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "ella"
},
{
"word": "essa"
}
],
"word": "lei"
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"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
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"Italian pronouns",
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"Italian terms inherited from Classical Latin",
"Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian terms with audio links",
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"lèi"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "io"
},
{
"word": "mi"
},
{
"word": "m'"
},
{
"word": "-mi"
},
{
"word": "me"
},
{
"word": "—"
},
{
"word": "tu"
},
{
"word": "ti"
},
{
"word": "t'"
},
{
"word": "-ti"
},
{
"word": "te"
},
{
"word": "lui"
},
{
"word": "si2"
},
{
"word": "s'"
},
{
"word": "-si"
},
{
"word": "lo"
},
{
"word": "l'"
},
{
"word": "-lo"
},
{
"word": "gli"
},
{
"word": "-gli"
},
{
"word": "glie"
},
{
"word": "se2"
},
{
"word": "sé"
},
{
"word": "ci"
},
{
"word": "c'"
},
{
"word": "vi"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "v'"
},
{
"word": "ne"
},
{
"word": "n'"
},
{
"word": "Lei1"
},
{
"word": "la"
},
{
"word": "La1"
},
{
"word": "L'1"
},
{
"word": "-la"
},
{
"word": "-La1"
},
{
"word": "le3"
},
{
"word": "Le1"
},
{
"word": "-le3"
},
{
"word": "-Le1"
},
{
"word": "noi"
},
{
"word": "-ci"
},
{
"word": "ce"
},
{
"word": "voi"
},
{
"word": "Voi4"
},
{
"word": "Vi4"
},
{
"word": "v'"
},
{
"word": "V'4"
},
{
"word": "-vi"
},
{
"word": "-Vi4"
},
{
"word": "ve"
},
{
"word": "loro"
},
{
"word": "Loro1"
},
{
"word": "si"
},
{
"word": "li"
},
{
"word": "Li1"
},
{
"word": "-li"
},
{
"word": "-Li1"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "loro"
},
{
"word": "se"
},
{
"word": "le"
},
{
"word": "-le"
},
{
"word": "1"
},
{
"english": "with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects",
"word": "Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects. Unlike the singular forms"
},
{
"word": "the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language"
},
{
"word": "and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead"
},
{
"word": "2"
},
{
"english": "one",
"word": "Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning"
},
{
"word": "and to form the passive"
},
{
"word": "3"
},
{
"word": "Often replaced by gli"
},
{
"word": "-gli in informal language"
},
{
"word": "4"
},
{
"english": "capitalisation optional",
"word": "Formal"
},
{
"word": "in many regions"
},
{
"english": "compare with French vous",
"word": "can refer to just one person"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian formal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"you"
],
"links": [
[
"you",
"you"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal) you"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "voi"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛj/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛj"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Lei"
}
],
"word": "lei"
}
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