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See were on Wiktionary

Noun [Ancien français]

Forms: weire
  1. Wergeld, amende qu’un meurtrier devait payer en compensation aux parents de la victime.
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun [Ancien français]

  1. Variante de weire. Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: weire
    Sense id: fr-were-fro-noun-ZUkJPZh- Categories (other): Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en ancien français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb [Anglais]

IPA: \wɚ\, \wə\, \ˈwɜː\, \ˈwɝ\, ˈwɝ, \wə\, wə, \wɚ\, wɚ, wɚ Audio: En-us-were.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-were.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-She animates-were.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-were.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Grendelkhan-were.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Robust Footman-were.wav
Forms: to be [affirmative, infinitive], am [affirmative], ’m, ain't, amn’t [negative], art [affirmative], are [affirmative], ’re, aren’t [negative], is [affirmative], ’s, isn’t [negative], was [affirmative], wasn’t [negative], wert, wast [affirmative], weren’t [negative], been [affirmative, participle, past], being [affirmative, participle, present], ¹S’utilise avec le pronom archaïque thou
  1. Prétérit du singulier de la deuxième personne ou du pluriel de be. Form of: be
    Sense id: fr-were-en-verb-VZ1MpB1b Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
  2. Subjonctif passé de be. Form of: be
    Sense id: fr-were-en-verb-8EUAoN6o Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: was

Adverb [Flamand occidental]

  1. Où.
    Sense id: fr-were-vls-adv-uOO1yb03 Categories (other): Ostendais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun [Irarutu]

  1. Eau.
    Sense id: fr-were-irh-noun-uM8kvQlE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Noms communs en irarutu, Irarutu

Noun [Makuva]

  1. Eau.
    Sense id: fr-were-lva-noun-uM8kvQlE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Noms communs en makuva, Makuva

Noun [Murrinh-patha]

  1. Chien.
    Sense id: fr-were-mwf-noun-3jCnXpNP Topics: zoology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun [Onin]

  1. Eau.
    Sense id: fr-were-oni-noun-uM8kvQlE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Noms communs en onin, Onin

Noun [Uruangnirin]

  1. Eau.
    Sense id: fr-were-urn-noun-uM8kvQlE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en ancien français issus d’un mot en vieux-francique",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots parfois masculins ou féminins en ancien français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en ancien français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Ancien français",
      "orig": "ancien français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Étymologies en ancien français incluant une reconstruction",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Probable apocope de l’ancien bas vieux-francique *weregeld (« prix de l’homme ») → voir wergeld."
  ],
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    {
      "form": "weire"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancien français",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en ancien français",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en ancien français à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en ancien français du droit",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Lois de Guillaume le Conquérant,f. 75, édition de J. Matzke",
          "text": "12 — Cil ki autrui femme pugist, si forfet sun were vers sun seinur."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Wergeld, amende qu’un meurtrier devait payer en compensation aux parents de la victime."
      ],
      "id": "fr-were-fro-noun-RJX37LnE",
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

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      "kind": "other",
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      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Ancien français",
      "orig": "ancien français",
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Probable apocope de l’ancien bas vieux-francique *weregeld (« prix de l’homme ») → voir wergeld."
  ],
  "lang": "Ancien français",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun 2",
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        {
          "word": "weire"
        }
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        "Variante de weire."
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        "alt-of"
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    "feminine"
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Supplétions en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
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      "orig": "anglais",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
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  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du proto-indo-européen *wēs- (« habiter »). Cette forme dénote une supplétion car son étymologie est distincte de celle de be."
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      "form": "to be",
      "ipas": [
        "\\biː\\",
        "\\bi\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative",
        "infinitive"
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        "\\æm\\"
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        "Présent simple, 1ʳᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
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    },
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      "form": "’m",
      "ipas": [
        "\\m\\",
        "\\əm\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Contraction",
        "Présent simple, 1ʳᵉ pers. singulier"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ain't, amn’t",
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        "\\ˈeint\\, \\ˈæm.ənt\\"
      ],
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        "Présent simple, 1ʳᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "negative"
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      "form": "art",
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        "\\ɑːt\\",
        "\\ɑɹt\\"
      ],
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        "Présent simple, 2ᵉ pers. singulier (Archaïsme)¹"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
      ]
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        "\\ɑː\\",
        "\\ɑɹ\\"
      ],
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        "Présent simple, 2ᵉ pers. singulier 1ʳᵉ, 2ᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. pluriel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "’re",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ə(ɹ)\\",
        "\\ɚ\\"
      ],
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        "Contraction",
        "Présent simple, 2ᵉ pers. singulier 1ʳᵉ, 2ᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. pluriel"
      ]
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        "\\ˈɑːnt\\",
        "\\ˈɑɹnt\\"
      ],
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        "Présent simple, 2ᵉ pers. singulier 1ʳᵉ, 2ᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. pluriel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "is",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪz\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Présent simple, 3ᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "’s",
      "ipas": [
        "\\s\\",
        "\\z\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Contraction",
        "Présent simple, 3ᵉ pers. singulier"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isn’t",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈɪz.n̩t\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Présent simple, 3ᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
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        "\\wəz\\, \\ˈwɒz\\,",
        "\\ˈwʌz\\"
      ],
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        "Prétérit, 1ʳᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wasn’t",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈwɒz.n̩t\\",
        "\\ˈwʌz.n̩t\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Prétérit, 1ʳᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. singulier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wert, wast",
      "ipas": [
        "\\wɜːt\\",
        "\\wɝt\\, \\wɑst\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Prétérit, 2ᵉ pers. singulier (Archaïsme)¹"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "weren’t",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈwɜːnt\\",
        "\\ˈwɝnt\\"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Prétérit, 2ᵉ pers. singulier 1ʳᵉ, 2ᵉ et 3ᵉ pers. pluriel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "been",
      "ipas": [
        "\\bin\\",
        "\\bɪn\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "being",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbiː.ɪŋ\\",
        "\\ˈbi.ɪŋ\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "affirmative",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "¹S’utilise avec le pronom archaïque thou"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Forme de verbe",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "was"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My friends were never any good at French.",
          "translation": "Mes amis n’ont jamais été bons en français."
        },
        {
          "text": "You were eating your dinner when my father came into the room.",
          "translation": "Tu mangeais ton dîner quand mon père entra dans la salle."
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "be"
        }
      ],
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        "Prétérit du singulier de la deuxième personne ou du pluriel de be."
      ],
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    },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If I were you, I would buy a warmer coat.",
          "translation": "Si j’étais vous, j’achèterais un manteau plus chaud."
        },
        {
          "text": "If you were here.",
          "translation": "Si vous étiez là."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William James (1842-1910), The principles of psychology (1890), page 216",
          "text": "Were our topic Absolute Mind instead of being the concrete minds of individuals dwelling in the natural world, we could not tell…",
          "translation": "L’Esprit Absolu eût-il été notre sujet… nous n’eussions pas pu dire…"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "be"
        }
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      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\wə\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
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      "ipa": "\\ˈwɜː\\",
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        "(Royaume-Uni)",
        "(Australie)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈwɝ\\",
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        "(États-Unis)",
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        "(Royaume-Uni)",
        "(Australie)"
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      "parents": [],
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          "parents": [],
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      "source": "w"
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      "orig": "irarutu",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
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  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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        "Eau."
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      "parents": [],
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      "source": "w"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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        "Eau."
      ],
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}

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      "parents": [],
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    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en murrinh-patha",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
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    {
      "kind": "other",
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  "lang_code": "mwf",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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      "glosses": [
        "Chien."
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      "topics": [
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}

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      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
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    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Onin",
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  "lang_code": "oni",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Eau."
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Uruangnirin",
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    "Étymologies en ancien français incluant une reconstruction"
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  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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        "Exemples en ancien français",
        "Exemples en ancien français à traduire",
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          "text": "12 — Cil ki autrui femme pugist, si forfet sun were vers sun seinur."
        }
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    "masculine"
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        "Variante de weire."
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        "alt-of"
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    "feminine"
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}

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    "Étymologies en anglais incluant une reconstruction"
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    "Du proto-indo-européen *wēs- (« habiter »). Cette forme dénote une supplétion car son étymologie est distincte de celle de be."
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        "\\bi\\"
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        "affirmative",
        "infinitive"
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        "affirmative"
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        "negative"
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      "tags": [
        "affirmative"
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        "\\ˈwʌz.n̩t\\"
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        "negative"
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        "\\wɜːt\\",
        "\\wɝt\\, \\wɑst\\"
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        "affirmative"
      ]
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        "\\ˈwɝnt\\"
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        "negative"
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    {
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        "\\bin\\",
        "\\bɪn\\"
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        "affirmative",
        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "being",
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        "\\ˈbi.ɪŋ\\"
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        "affirmative",
        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "¹S’utilise avec le pronom archaïque thou"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "word": "was"
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        "Exemples en anglais"
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        {
          "text": "My friends were never any good at French.",
          "translation": "Mes amis n’ont jamais été bons en français."
        },
        {
          "text": "You were eating your dinner when my father came into the room.",
          "translation": "Tu mangeais ton dîner quand mon père entra dans la salle."
        }
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        {
          "word": "be"
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          "translation": "Si j’étais vous, j’achèterais un manteau plus chaud."
        },
        {
          "text": "If you were here.",
          "translation": "Si vous étiez là."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William James (1842-1910), The principles of psychology (1890), page 216",
          "text": "Were our topic Absolute Mind instead of being the concrete minds of individuals dwelling in the natural world, we could not tell…",
          "translation": "L’Esprit Absolu eût-il été notre sujet… nous n’eussions pas pu dire…"
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          "word": "be"
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        "(Australie)"
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  "categories": [
    "Adverbes en flamand occidental",
    "flamand occidental"
  ],
  "lang": "Flamand occidental",
  "lang_code": "vls",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Adverbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "ostendais"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Où."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Ostendais"
      ]
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{
  "categories": [
    "Noms communs en irarutu",
    "irarutu"
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  "lang_code": "irh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eau."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Noms communs en makuva",
    "makuva"
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  "lang_code": "lva",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eau."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Animaux en murrinh-patha",
    "Noms communs en murrinh-patha",
    "murrinh-patha"
  ],
  "lang": "Murrinh-patha",
  "lang_code": "mwf",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Chien."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

{
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    "onin"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eau."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Noms communs en uruangnirin",
    "uruangnirin"
  ],
  "lang": "Uruangnirin",
  "lang_code": "urn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Eau."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "were"
}

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