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class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Cebuano: <span class="Latn" lang="ceb"><a href="/wiki/hugot_sa_bakos#Cebuano" title="hugot sa bakos">hugot sa bakos</a></span></li> <li>Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/w/index.php?title=de_broekriem_aanhalen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="de broekriem aanhalen (page does not exist)">de broekriem aanhalen</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kirist%C3%A4%C3%A4#Finnish" title="kiristää">kiristää</a> <a href="/wiki/vy%C3%B6t%C3%A4#Finnish" title="vyötä">vyötä</a><a href="/wiki/-%C3%A4n#Finnish" title="-än">än</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/se_serrer_la_ceinture#French" title="se serrer la 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href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/zacisn%C4%85%C4%87_pasa" class="extiw" title="pl:zacisnąć pasa">(pl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5#Russian" title="затянуть ремень потуже">затяну́ть реме́нь поту́же</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:затянуть ремень потуже">(ru)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="perfective aspect">pf</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">zatjanútʹ reménʹ potúže</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" 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