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tongue

Surface form · la lengua

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Noun

  1. 1

    (anatomy) tongue

    Se mordió la lengua sin querer.

    He bit his tongue by accident.
  2. 2

    (linguistics) language

    El español es mi lengua materna.

    Spanish is my mother tongue.

1(anatomy)tongue

Se mordió la lengua sin querer.

He bit his tongue by accident.

El médico me pidió que sacara la lengua.

The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue.

Puedes sentir el sabor dulce con la lengua.

You can feel the sweet taste with your tongue.

Saca la lengua.

Stick out your tongue.

2(linguistics)language

El español es mi lengua materna.

Spanish is my mother tongue.

Ella habla tres lenguas con fluidez.

She speaks three languages fluently.

A veces es difícil entender una lengua extranjera.

Sometimes it's difficult to understand a foreign language.

Mi lengua materna es el español.

My native language is Spanish.
Noun

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plural

lenguas

singular

lengua