native tongue in English

mother tongue, first language learned

Use "native tongue" in a sentence

1. The French feel passionately about their native tongue.

2. She speaks English and Danish, though her native tongue is German.

3. He speaks English,(sentencedict .com) but his native tongue is German.

4. Her lapse into German didn't seem peculiar. After all, it was her native tongue.

5. Aramaic was the native-tongue of many Aramean tribes that dwelt between Mesopotamia and Canaan

6. In the owner's native tongue, Campo can mean "field" or "countryside"

7. Oh, Monsieur Candie, you can't imagine what it's like not to hear your native tongue in four years.

8. Albanian is also an official language of Kosovo, and spoken by the majority of its population as a native tongue.

9. The language nearly died out in the 20th century, when Aboriginals could be jailed for speaking their native tongue in public

10. It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue.

11. Students frequently have problems with Collocations for a number of reasons; the most common being direct translations from their native tongue

12. James asks Charlize Theron about her and her mom's conversations in their native tongue, Afrikaans, and learns that it once backfired on them at an airport.M

13. Aramaic (air-uh-MAY-ick) is an ancient language deeply rooted in the Middle East, and the native tongue of Yeshua - Jesus - and his family, friends, and followers

14. ‘Black Creoles and Garifunas, the descendants of Caribbean slaves, mix with Miskito, Rama, and Sumu Indians, who have lived on the land for hundreds of years.’ ‘It is the native tongue of the Creoles, blacks who came from Jamaica and other islands colonized by the British.’ ‘Free Creoles were of mixed African and European descent.’