Natively

//ˈneɪtɪvli//

"Natively" in a Sentence (18 examples)

I speak English natively, Spanish fluently, and German haltingly.

The Russian language is a Slavic language spoken natively in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and is widely used, although without official imprimatur, in Latvia, Estonia and many other countries that form the constituent republics of the former Soviet Union.

My friend speaks Dutch natively.

He speaks Berber natively.

Sony's PlayStation VR headset is not natively supported on Windows.

The language both I and the people in my country speak natively is Japanese.

It depends on the Tagalog-speaker whether, for "three," he will say "tres" from Spanish or "tri" from English or "tatlo" natively. As Japanese has Native Japanese and Sino-Japanese numbers, as well as less official Anglo-Japanese numbers, Tagalog similarly has three sets for numbers.

He spoke French natively, having been born there, and English almost as well.

This is because by definition, a pidgin is not learned natively.

This is a Microsoft Windows application, so you can't run it natively on an Apple Mac.

The experiment showed only what the mass must always be— natively incapable of controlling their passions, natively eager for their enjoyment, and natively envious of the original superiority of birth, affluence, and knowledge.

The vines of some species are always found natively in limy soils, and varieties of such species generally succeed well in such soils.·

Since a transsexual is a person with natively male genitalia who nevertheless has had a lifelong sense of femaleness, the purpose of surgery should logically be to provide such a person with anatomy and sexual response as close as possible to that of any other woman.

Several useful fetures of disordered regions are, however, discernable, and we consider them in the context of a few of the structurally and biochemically characterized biologic systems in which the function of natively unfolded proteins has been investigated.

The sin of Adam, by which we are brought under condemnation, is ours originally, natively, and intrinsically; and the nature which we inherit and originally possess is the very nature by which the apostasy was wrought.

On the other hand, some subjects are not natively interesting, but they become interesting when we study them extensively, that is, they have an acquired interest.

In sizing up his first season with the Smart Set, Indianapolis-based columnist Will M. Lewis concluded that Dudley's portrayal of George Washington Bullion "belongs to the Hogan class; not so natively funny, but with better judgement. […]"

Even natively fictive characters can be used as a commentary on real-life politicians such as Donald Trump.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.