Polyglot Dictionary

Sprache

/ˈʃpʁaːxə/

die noun A1

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 Sprachen

Meaning

  1. language

    • Wie viele Sprachen sprichst du?

      How many languages do you speak?

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Dialekt

A Dialekt is a regional variant of a single Sprache — Bavarian is a Dialekt of German, not a separate Sprache. Where exactly a dialect ends and a language begins is famously political as much as linguistic.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

idioma

idioma is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "language."

Portuguese

linguagem

linguagem is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "language."

Practice

1 What does Sprache mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wie viele ___ sprichst du?

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Sprache?

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