mehrsprachig
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig
Adjective
[edit]mehrsprachig (strong nominative masculine singular mehrsprachiger, not comparable)
- multilingual
- Synonym: (roughly) vielsprachig
- Antonym: einsprachig
- (of a book, etc.) containing text in more than one language
- (of a person) able to communicate in more than one language
Usage notes
[edit]- Since a solid majority of people in German-speaking countries is multilingual in the above sense, the word is now sometimes used in the stricter sense of “having grown up speaking more than one language, having more than one native language”.
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of mehrsprachig (uncomparable)
Hyponyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mehrsprachig” in Duden online
- “mehrsprachig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache