See si in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "We walked for six kilometers.",
"text": "Se semo fatti sei chilometri a fette. (Ci siamo fatti sei chilometri a piedi.)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Let's love each other.",
"text": "Volemose bene. (Vogliamoci bene.)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Do you want to split?",
"text": "Se la smezzamo? (Ce la dividiamo?)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "We will both lay down in this meadow\n and tomorrow morning, when the day appears,\n together we will go back to fight.",
"ref": "1483, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, I, XVIII, lines 37–39:",
"text": "Ambo se poseremo in questo prato\n e domatina, come il giorno pare,\n ritornaremo insieme a battagliare.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"reflexive and reciprocal first person pronoun, where Standard Italian uses ci"
],
"links": [
[
"ci",
"ci#Italian"
]
],
"qualifier": "notably Rome",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, notably Rome) reflexive and reciprocal first person pronoun, where Standard Italian uses ci"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/si/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-i"
}
],
"word": "si"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian 1-syllable words",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 97 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/i",
"Rhymes:Italian/i/1 syllable",
"zom:Bodily fluids"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "nouns"
},
"expansion": "si",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"sì"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "sì"
},
{
"word": "ci"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"it:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"si (musical note B)"
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"si",
"si#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) si (musical note B)"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-i"
}
],
"word": "si"
}
Download raw JSONL data for si meaning in Italian (7.5kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: si passivante",
"path": [
"si"
],
"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "si",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: si passivante",
"path": [
"si"
],
"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "si",
"trace": ""
}
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