zweisprachig

German

Pronunciation

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

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• Hyphenation: zwei‧spra‧chig

Adjective

zweisprachig (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

• 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”.

Synonyms

• bilingual

Derived terms

• Zweisprachigkeit

Further reading

• “zweisprachig” in Duden online