mehrsprachig

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig

Adjective

mehrsprachig (not comparable)

1. multilingual

1. (of a book, etc.) containing text in more than one language
2. (of a person) able to communicate in more than one language

Usage notes

• 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”.

Synonyms

• vielsprachig (roughly)

Antonyms

• einsprachig

Hyponyms

• zweisprachig
• dreisprachig
• viersprachig
• fünfsprachig
• sechssprachig

Further reading

• “mehrsprachig” in Duden online