idiomatically
- adverb
- /ˌɪdiəˈmætɪkli/
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idiomáticamente
- They are idiomatically diverse.
And it's used in German idiomatically to also mean existence or a thing that exists, right?
- And it's used in German idiomatically to also mean existence or a thing that exists, right?
Examples
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Iluti (literally "good hearing") idiomatically refers to qualities such as obedience, teachableness, understanding, and, above all, the ability to communicate.
Academic text (1994) -
And it's used in German idiomatically to also mean existence or a thing that exists, right?
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To put it idiomatically, 'I ain't going no place.'
Fiction book (1999) -
Idiomatically, ekiben have been adopted into the Japanese language.
Academic text (1994) -
Using set phrases rather than composing one's own from smaller linguistic parts, rather, that is, than saying things in "unconventional" ways, is speaking "idiomatically." Beginning at 18.
Academic text (2001) -
In letter 37, she states, again idiomatically, "I want to take my ghosts, Alicia, confront them face to face, snarl at them, stick out my tongue, wiggle my fingers from the sides of my head, nya-nya? (130).
Academic text (1996) -
Through an unlikely but terrifying chain of events, McLanahan had taken the Megafortress, idiomatically nicknamed the Old Dog, and its ragtag engineer crew into the Soviet Union to destroy a renegade ground-based antisatellite laser site.
Fiction book (1991) -
When he says, 'I can't get no satisfaction,' he is expressing his feelings idiomatically, like a native speaker.
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In English, we often say 'kick the bucket' idiomatically to mean someone has died.
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Phrasally, idioms like 'piece of cake' are used idiomatically to describe something that's easy to do.
How Idiomatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word idiomatically comes from idiom, which comes from an old Greek word meaning 'one's own' or 'personal'. So to speak idiomatically is to use the phrases that belong to a language and sound natural to native speakers.