Meaning of tunge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tongue
   common-gender
2. sole (fish)
   common-gender
3. language
   common-gender, poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“Men da ei Grunden blev tilstrækkelig / For Folkets Antal, drog de over til / Det sorte Bjerg, ja til det hvide Land, / Hvor, skjult bag ved en evig Muur af Iis, / Et andet Folk med anden Tunge taler.”

But when the place was insufficient / For the numbers of the people, they went to / The black mountain, yes, to the white land, / Where, hidden behind an eternal wall of ice, / Another people in another tongue speaks.

“Deres høvding havde talt til ham i hans eget folks sprog og forklaret mange ting, som det var vanskeligt at udtrykke i en anden tunge.”

Their chief had spoken to him in his own [not the chief's] people's language and explained many things that would have been difficult to express in another tongue.

CEFR level