fællessprog

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Danish

Etymology

fælles +‎ sprog

Noun

fællessprog n

  1. lingua franca, common language
    • 1982, Danske studier:
      Hun beherskede det intellektuelle fællessprog, latin, og de vigtigste nationalsprog, især engelsk, fransk og tysk.
      She mastered the intellectual lingua franca, Latin, and the most important national languages, especially English, French and German.
    • 1927, Gads danske magasin:
      Hertil er at sige, at hvis Menneskeden skal faa nogen Nytte af et Fællessprog, saa kan man jo dog ikke vente til Dommedag med at træffe sit Valg.
      To this, it should be added, that if humanity is to benefit at all from a shared language, then one cannot wait until the end of times to make one's decision.
    • 2011, Heidi Laura, Den jødiske verden, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:
      Sproget er aramæisk, som var Mellemøstens store fællessprog indtil islam gjorde arabisk til nyt fællessprog, ...
      The language is Aramaic, which was the great lingua franca of the Middle East until Islam made Arabic a new lingua franca, ...

Declension

Declension of fællessprog
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fællessprog fællessproget fællessprog fællessprogene
genitive fællessprogs fællessprogets fællessprogs fællessprogenes

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