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"english": "Can you hear or not?",
"ref": "2018, Tatjana Boiko, Lʹudmila Markianova, Suuri Venʹa-Karjalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Russian-Karelian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 118:",
"text": "Kuulet vai et kuule?",
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},
{
"english": "Will you go or not?",
"ref": "2018, Tatjana Boiko, Lʹudmila Markianova, Suuri Venʹa-Karjalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Russian-Karelian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 118:",
"text": "lähtet vai et lähte?",
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"text": "Et vai tulle, suutun.",
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"english": "Only a few can dance like this.",
"ref": "2019, Tatjana Boiko, Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2rd edition, →ISBN, page 311:",
"text": "Nenga tansie voijah vai harvat.",
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"text": "Kuulet vai et kuule?",
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"english": "Will you go or not?",
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"text": "Et vai tulle, suutun.",
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"sense": "only",
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Livvi dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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