German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡svaɪ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
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  • Hyphenation: zwei‧spra‧chig

Adjective

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zweisprachig (strong nominative masculine singular zweisprachiger, not comparable)

  1. bilingual
    1. (of a book, etc.) containing text in two languages
    2. (of a person) able to communicate in two languages

Usage notes

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  • Since a solid majority of people in German-speaking countries is bilingual in the above sense, the word is now sometimes used in the stricter sense of “having grown up speaking two languages, having two native languages”.

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