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German-speaking

German-speaking

4 3.4
Able to speak German or from a place where people speak German
  • adjective
: de habla alemana
  • Kashubes, a group of German-speaking Poles, soon dominated the parish.
  • German-speaking Hungarians
  • German-speaking elites in Transylvania
  • German-speaking employer

This country or this empire was not only a German speaking country.

Examples

  • During the nineteenth century, German-speaking elites in Transylvania developed a strong sense of German nationalism in response to state centralization.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The Pennsylvania Dutch were immigrants from German speaking areas of Europe.

  • Here we were received by two German-speaking GIs who presented themselves as our teachers.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The socialist labor journal he edited ran a German section that catered to German-speaking readers.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In Central Europe, migration began in the south, in Baden, Wuerttemberg, and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The city's influential German-speaking employers had long taken advantage of ethnic bonds with workers to camouflage class differences.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Whether understood as German-speaking Hungarians or as Germans living in Hungary, members of this community articulated multiple national loyalties.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Many tourists visit Switzerland to explore its beautiful landscapes and converse with the German-speaking locals.

  • After moving to Berlin, he quickly learned that living in a German-speaking country would improve his language skills.

  • At the conference, we met scholars from various German-speaking regions sharing their research on cultural heritage.

How Fluent

fluent
6 2.8
German-speaking
4 3.4

Surface Forms

German-speaking positive

Morphology

German-speaking = German + speaking (transparent) = German + speak + ing

The compound combines 'German' and 'speaking' with an obvious meaning: able to speak or pertaining to speaking German.

Etymology

German-speaking is made of two parts: German, meaning the language or the people of Germany, and speaking ('to talk'). So it means a person, family, place, or country where people 'speak German'.