See li in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{ "categories": [ "Pages with 56 entries", "Pages with entries", "Swahili entries with incorrect language header", "Swahili lemmas", "Swahili verbs" ], "forms": [ { "form": "-li", "tags": [ "canonical" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sw", "2": "verb", "head": "-li" }, "expansion": "-li", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Swahili", "lang_code": "sw", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Swahili terms with archaic senses", "Swahili terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "bold_english_offsets": [ [ 22, 24 ] ], "bold_roman_offsets": [ [ 1, 3 ] ], "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 21, 23 ], [ 43, 45 ] ], "english": "Do you not see that I am the last prophet / to descend on earth?", "ref": "Jan Knappert (1967) Tradition Swahili poetry", "roman": "Hamuoni nili nyuma / au ṯini kutwelea.", "text": "كَمُيُبِنِ^([sic]) نِلِ يُمَ اَوْ تِنِ كُطِلِيَا", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to be" ], "links": [ [ "be", "be" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(archaic) to be" ], "tags": [ "archaic" ] }, { "categories": [ "Swahili terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "bold_english_offsets": [ [ 17, 20 ] ], "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 8, 10 ] ], "english": "the things which are inside", "text": "mambo yaliomo", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "general relative positive degree stem of -wa, -wapo, -wako, or -wamo" ], "links": [ [ "-wa", "wa#Swahili" ], [ "-wapo", "wapo#Swahili" ], [ "-wako", "wako#Swahili" ], [ "-wamo", "wamo#Swahili" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "Sw-ke-li.flac", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/Sw-ke-li.flac/Sw-ke-li.flac.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/Sw-ke-li.flac/Sw-ke-li.flac.ogg" } ], "word": "li" }
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