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Otti telefoniert mit seiner Oma in seiner Muttersprache. Otti talks to his grandma on the phone in his mother tongue.

noun · B1

die Muttersprache

[ˈmʊtɐˌʃpʁaːxə]

mother tongue, native language

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Antonyms
die Fremdsprache

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Grammar

Plural
die Muttersprachen In the plural the article is always "die".

Declension

The noun in the four cases, with the definite article.

Case Singular Plural Example
Nominative wer? was? die Muttersprache die Muttersprachen
Meine Muttersprache ist Ukrainisch, aber ich träume schon auf Deutsch. My native language is Ukrainian, but I already dream in German.
Accusative wen? was? die Muttersprache die Muttersprachen
Dative wem? der Muttersprache den Muttersprachen
Genitive wessen? der Muttersprache der Muttersprachen

How the Word Is Built

Mutter root sprache root

A compound: die Mutter + die Sprache

The last word gives the article. More rules

Word family

In Otti's situations: Otti and the German idioms, Otti and the dialects

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