"Sprachgefühl" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl. Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|de|Sprachgefühl}} Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Sprachgefühl (uncountable)
  1. The instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: sprachgefuhl, sprachgefühl Translations (the instinctive or intuitive grasp of a language): 語感 (Chinese Mandarin), 语感 (yǔgǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), taalgevoel [neuter] (Dutch), lingvosento (Esperanto), kielikorva (Finnish), Sprachgefühl [neuter] (German), nyelvérzék (Hungarian), 語感 (gokan) (alt: ごかん) (Japanese), 어감 (eogam) (alt: 語感) (Korean), språkøre [neuter] (Norwegian), språkfølelse [masculine] (Norwegian), poczucie językowe [neuter] (Polish), intuicja językowa [feminine] (Polish), wyczucie językowe [neuter] (Polish), чу́вство языка́ (čúvstvo jazyká) [neuter] (Russian), языково́е чутьё (jazykovóje čutʹjó) [neuter] (Russian), intuición lingüística [feminine] (Spanish), språkkänsla (Swedish), ngữ cảm (alt: 語感) (Vietnamese), שפּראַכגעפֿיל (shprakhgefil) [neuter] (Yiddish)

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