Sprachgefühl
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl.
Pronunciation
Noun
Sprachgefühl (uncountable)
- The instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language.
- 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 15:
- Not everyone has sprachgefühl, and you don't know if you are possessed of it until you are knee-deep in the English language, trying your best to navigate the murky swamp of it.
Translations
the instinctive or intuitive grasp of a language
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German
Etymology
Sprache (“language”) + Gefühl (“sense, intuition”, literally “feeling”)
Pronunciation
Noun
Sprachgefühl n (strong, genitive Sprachgefühls, no plural)
- the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language
- 2012, Claudia Law, Sprachratgeber und Stillehren in Deutschland (1923-1967): Ein Vergleich der Sprach- und Stilauffassung in vier politischen Systemen, page 213:
- Das Sprachgefühl bürgt nicht mehr für Sprachrichtigkeit, sondern wird der angelernten Sprachkompetenz untergeordnet.
- A speaker's intuition no longer vouches for linguistic correctness, but is instead subordinated to learned linguistic competence.
Declension
Declension of Sprachgefühl
Further reading
- “Sprachgefühl” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Sprachgefühl” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Sprachgefühl” in Duden online