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Noun

die Muttersprache

mother tongue; native language

B1 rank #5,639 plural Muttersprachen

Meanings

Noun
  1. mother tongue; native language
  2. the language one has learnt from one’s mother (chiefly in the case of two parents with different languages)

In a sentence

Was ist deine Muttersprache?

What's your native language?

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Forms

die Muttersprache · die Muttersprachen

Muttersprache is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #5,639 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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