Meaning of firsproget | Babel Free
Definitions
quadrilingual
Equivalents
Examples
“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.
“Retsplejeordbogen er en firsproget juridisk fagordbog med ca. 6.000 opslagsord.”
Retsplejeordbogen ["the dictionary of legal practice"] is a quadrilingual legal specialized dictionary containing approximately 6,000 lemmas.
“... man kender også tvesprogede lande (Belgien, Canada, ja endog et firsproget Schweiz), ...”
... bilingual countries are also known (Belgium, Canada, indeed, a tetralingual Switzerland), ...
“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.
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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