Sprachgefühl

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl.

Noun

Sprachgefühl (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Translations

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpʁaːχɡəˌfyːl/
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Noun

Sprachgefühl n (strong, genitive Sprachgefühls, no plural)

  1. 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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