Muttersprache
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Loan translation and/or phonetic adaptation of Middle Low German môdersprâke, itself possibly a loan translation of Latin lingua materna. Analyzable as Mutter (“mother”) + Sprache (“language”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Muttersprache f (genitive Muttersprache, plural Muttersprachen)
- mother tongue; native language
- Coordinate term: Fremdsprache
- Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache.
- German is my native language.
- (often humorous) the language one has learnt from one’s mother (chiefly in the case of two parents with different languages)
- Coordinate term: Vatersprache
- Türkisch ist meine Muttersprache und Deutsch meine Vatersprache.
- Turkish is my mother’s language and German is my father’s language.
- (linguistics, rare or archaic) ancestor language, parent language (language from which another is derived)
- Synonym: Vorläufersprache
- Coordinate terms: Tochtersprache, Schwestersprache
- Latein ist die Muttersprache des Romanischen.
- Latin is the ancestor of Romance.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Muttersprache [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Muttersprache | die | Muttersprachen |
genitive | einer | der | Muttersprache | der | Muttersprachen |
dative | einer | der | Muttersprache | den | Muttersprachen |
accusative | eine | die | Muttersprache | die | Muttersprachen |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Muttersprache” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Muttersprache” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Muttersprache” in Duden online
- Muttersprache on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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