LingakuFrequency rank: 35,666. – 36,081.
- language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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- language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
This term is used to refer to the language that a person first learned and is often associated with their cultural identity. It signifies the language commonly spoken in the country where a person was raised or has citizenship.
Generated collocations (experimental)
ぼこくご母国語をはなす話すto speak one's mother tongueぼこくご母国語きょういく教育mother tongue educationぼこくご母国語をまなぶ学ぶto learn one's native languageぼこくご母国語のわしゃ話者native speaker of a languageだいに第二ぼこくご母国語second native languageぼこくご母国語とぶんか文化mother tongue and cultureぼこくご母国語がじゅうよう重要the importance of the mother tongueぼこくご母国語でこみゅにけえしょんをとるコミュニケーションを取るto communicate in one's native languageぼこくご母国語のうた歌songs in the mother tongueがいこくご外国語のぼこくご母国語foreign language versus mother tongue
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Example sentences
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Mr Wright speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.
She can't even speak her native language without making mistakes.
She can't even speak her native language without making mistakes.
The foreigner speaks Japanese as if it were his native language.
She speaks five foreign languages, but when she wants to curse she speaks in her mother tongue.
One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages.
I am a native Japanese-speaking woman. But even though this is the case, I sometimes still make small mistakes when I am writing or speaking.
18. ふらんすごフランス語をぼこくご母国語としないひと人にぶんしょ文書をふらんすごフランス語にほんやく翻訳するよういらい依頼するのは、かいけいし会計士にいえをたてる家を建てるよういらい依頼するようなものです。
Asking a non-native French speaker to translate a document into French is like asking an accountant to build you a house.
Asking a non-native French speaker to translate a document into French is like asking an accountant to build you a house.