Polyglot Dictionary

Fremdsprache

/ˈfʁɛmtˌʃpʁaːxə/

die noun A2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Fremdsprachen

Meaning

  1. foreign language

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • fremd foreign, strange
  • Sprache language

Similar words

Zweitsprache

A Zweitsprache ("second language") is often learned by living in a place — picked up through daily use, not just study. Fremdsprache is the broader term and doesn't imply where or how it was learned.

Muttersprache

The direct opposite: a Fremdsprache (fremd "foreign" + Sprache) is any language learned later, not absorbed from birth. Fitting, for a dictionary meant to help with exactly that.

Practice

1 What does Fremdsprache mean?

2 Fill the gap: Deutsch als ___ ist gar nicht so schwer.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Fremdsprache?

See also

nouncompoundlanguage

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