See hen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "hen c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "hen c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"english": "grindstone",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "slipsten"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish dialectal terms",
"Swedish terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"a whetstone, particularly the small and soft kind."
],
"links": [
[
"whetstone",
"whetstone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, dialectal) a whetstone, particularly the small and soft kind."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"common-gender",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/heːn/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bryne"
},
{
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "brynsten"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"hen (pronoun)"
],
"word": "hen"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hen meaning in Swedish (9.2kB)
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