Home ->Dictionaries ->English/Swedish ->Search: mother tongue

English and Swedish Translation Search Results for mother tongue

Summary

English to Swedish: more detail...

mother tongue:
- modersmål
Wiktionary:
- mother tongue → modersmål
- mother tongue → modersmål, förstaspråk

English

Detailed Translations for mother tongue from English to Swedish

mother tongue:

mother tongue [the ~] noun

the mother tongue
modersmål
- modersmål [-ett] noun

Translation Matrix for mother tongue:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
modersmål	mother tongue	national language; native language; native tongue; vernacular
-	first language; maternal language

Synonyms for "mother tongue":

maternal language; first language; natural language; tongue

Related Definitions for "mother tongue":

one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next¹

Wiktionary Translations for mother tongue:

mother tongue

noun

one's native tongue
- mother tongue → modersmål

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• mother tongue	→ modersmål	↔ moedertaal — taalkunde\|nld taal die tijdens de jeugd, zonder formeel taalonderwijs, wordt verworven
• mother tongue	→ förstaspråk; modersmål	↔ Erstsprache — Linguistik: diejenige Sprache, die ein Kind als erste/wichtigste Sprache erlernt und verwendet, in den meisten Fällen die Muttersprache
• mother tongue	→ modersmål	↔ Muttersprache — Sprache, die ein Kind von seinen Eltern erlernt und in der es denkt

External Machine Translations:

Related Translations for mother tongue

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University