Sprachgefühl

See also: sprachgefuhl and sprachgefühl

English

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Sprachgefühl (uncountable)

The instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language. [from 20th c.]
- 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.

the instinctive or intuitive grasp of a language

Chinese:
Mandarin: 語感／语感 (zh) (yǔgǎn)
Dutch: taalgevoel (nl) n
Esperanto: lingvosento
Finnish: kielikorva
German: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Hungarian: nyelvérzék (hu)
Japanese: 語感 (ja) (ごかん, gokan)
Korean: 어감(語感) (ko) (eogam)
Norwegian: språkøre (no) n, språkfølelse m
Polish: poczucie językowe n, intuicja językowa f, wyczucie językowe n
Russian: чу́вство языка́ n (čúvstvo jazyká), языково́е чутьё n (jazykovóje čutʹjó)
Spanish: intuición lingüística f
Swedish: språkkänsla (sv)
Vietnamese: ngữ cảm (語感)
Yiddish: שפּראַכגעפֿיל‎ n (shprakhgefil)

Sprache (“language”) +‎ Gefühl (“sense, intuition”, literally “feeling”)

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.

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