See kāpēc in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
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"because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
],
"links": [
[
"tāpēc",
"tāpēc#Latvian"
],
[
"because",
"because"
],
[
"use",
"use#English"
],
[
"link",
"link#English"
],
[
"two",
"two#English"
],
[
"relatively",
"relatively#English"
],
[
"independent",
"independent#English"
],
[
"sentence",
"sentence#English"
],
[
"component",
"component#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, syn. tāpēc) because; used to link two relatively independent sentence components"
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈkâːpêːts]"
},
{
"audio": "lv-riga-kāpēc.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8e/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "[kâːˈpêːts]"
},
{
"audio": "lv-riga-kāpēc-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Lv-riga-k%C4%81p%C4%93c-2.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kādēļ"
},
{
"word": "kālab"
}
],
"word": "kāpēc"
}
Download raw JSONL data for kāpēc meaning in Latvian (8.5kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, syn. tāpēc",
"path": [
"kāpēc"
],
"section": "Latvian",
"subsection": "conjunction",
"title": "kāpēc",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, syn. tāpēc",
"path": [
"kāpēc"
],
"section": "Latvian",
"subsection": "conjunction",
"title": "kāpēc",
"trace": ""
}
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