trilingual
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5.3
- adjective
- /traɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/
:
trilingüe
- For maximum cultural sensitivity, bilingual or trilingual clinicians were paired as much as possible to be of the same race/ethnicity and language group (English, Spanish, and in some cases Kreyl) as the child and as the teacher.
- bilingual or trilingual
- trilingual—Spanish, English
So you're, you're at least trilingual and probably more so.
- So you're, you're at least trilingual and probably more so.
- We got him and our daughter was the translator for it because we don't speak the language, but she's she's trilingual.
Examples
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The first passage stresses the deliberate willingness of some (trilingual) Lebanese to sprinkle their habitual French mainly with English but also with Arabic.
Academic text (2018) -
Beck was educated in Germany during her K-12 years, speaks conversational French, and has assisted Dr. Hetzel in teaching in a trilingual setting in North Africa.
Academic text (2011) -
All children should be bilingual or trilingual by the time they are five years old.
Academic text (1992) -
By the time she was 21, the trilingual Y-Combinator alumni had already graduated from college and raised $1.1 million from angel investors like Steve Blank and Jawed Karim.
Blog text (28) -
That's the reason why this website will be, as much as possible, trilingual: French, ARABIC caps in original, and English. This description highlights language-ethnicity, sexuality, and gender as inseparable facets of identity.
Academic text (2005) -
"To accomplish this goal, we worked collaboratively with two Ecuadorians, a linguist at Quito University and a videographer also from Quito, in the development of a trilingual book with text in Tsa'fiki, Spanish, and English.
Academic text (2013) -
It has enormous advantages, whether trilingual—Spanish, English, French—or quadrilingual. Well, trilingual would be French, English, and Spanish; it would be quadricultural, if I may say that.
Academic text (1997) -
For this study, a Ukrainian localization was prepared, reviewed, and tested by two trilingual (Russian, Ukrainian, English) researchers familiar with the field of digital-learning research, in consultation with a native Ukrainian and a native English-speaking researcher (Blayone et al., 2017).
Academic text (2018) -
She grew up in a trilingual household, speaking Spanish, French, and English fluently.
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The trilingual conference will feature speakers from various countries discussing their experiences in three languages.
Synonyms
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4.3
Able to speak or use more than one language
How Many Languages
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trilingual comes from tri- meaning 'three', as in triangle, and lingua meaning 'tongue' or 'language'. So to be trilingual is to 'use three tongues', which explains why it means knowing or using three languages.