mehrsprachig

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German

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Etymology

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mehr +‎ Sprache +‎ -ig

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig

Adjective

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mehrsprachig (strong nominative masculine singular mehrsprachiger, not comparable)

  1. multilingual
    Synonym: (roughly) vielsprachig
    Antonym: einsprachig
    1. (of a book, etc.) containing text in more than one language
    2. (of a person) able to communicate in more than one language

Usage notes

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  • 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”.

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