firsproget

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Danish

Etymology

fire +‎ sprog +‎ -et

Adjective

firsproget

  1. quadrilingual
    • 2013, Maj Sjöwall og Per Wahlöö (Translated by Bjarne Nielsen), Terroristerne, Modtryk →ISBN
      Han hed egentlig Reinhard Heydt og var sydafrikaner, opvokset i et firsproget hjem, hvor man talte hollandsk, afrikaans, engelsk og dansk.
      His name was actually Reinhard Heydt, and he was a South African who had grown up in a tetralingual home, where Dutch, Afrikaans, English and Danish were spoken.
    • 1991, Bogmarkedet:
      Retsplejeordbogen er en firsproget juridisk fagordbog med ca. 6.000 opslagsord.
      Retsplejeordbogen is a quadrilingual legal specialized dictionary containing approximately 6,000 lemmas.
    • 1968, Svend Bjørke, Henning Frisch Kiær, J. W. G. Norrie, Krigen 1864:
      ... man kender også tvesprogede lande (Belgien, Canada, ja endog et firsproget Schweiz), ...
      ... bilingual countries are also known (Belgium, Canada, indeed, a tetralingual Switzerland), ...
    • 2000, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Språkkontakt: – Innverknaden frå nedertysk på andre nordeuropeiske språk, Nordic Council of Ministers, →ISBN, page 119:
      Kasjubisk havde da eksisteret i århundreder i et samfund, de indfødte kasjubere karakteriserede som firsproget, idet de så forholdet mellem kasjubisk og polsk som parallelt med forholdet mellem nedertysk og standardtysk.
      Kashubian had then existed for centuries in a society characterized by the native Kashubians as tetralingual, as they saw the relationship between Kashubian and Polish as parallel to that between Low German and Standard German.

Inflection

Inflection of firsproget
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular firsproget — —2
indefinite neuter singular firsproget — —2
plural firsprogede — —2
definite attributive1 firsprogede — —

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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