mehrsprachig
German
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig
Adjective
editmehrsprachig (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
editPositive forms of mehrsprachig (uncomparable)
Hyponyms
editFurther reading
edit- “mehrsprachig” in Duden online
- “mehrsprachig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache