mehrsprachig
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/
- Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig
Adjective
mehrsprachig (not comparable)
- (of a book, etc.) containing text in more than one language
- (of a person) able to communicate in more than one language
Usage notes
- 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
Declension of mehrsprachig
Synonyms
- vielsprachig (roughly)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- zweisprachig
- dreisprachig
- viersprachig
- fünfsprachig
- sechssprachig
Further reading
- mehrsprachig in Duden online
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