Polyglot Dictionary

Muttersprache

/ˈmʊtɐˌʃpʁaːxə/

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 Muttersprachen

Meaning

  1. native language, mother tongue

    • Meine Muttersprache ist Spanisch.

      My native language is Spanish.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Mutter mother
  • Sprache language

Similar words

Fremdsprache

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 Muttersprache mean?

2 Fill the gap: Meine ___ ist Spanisch.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Muttersprache?

See also

nouncompoundlanguage

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