With an American father and a French mother, she is bilingual.
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Bilingual
//baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl//
Synonyms for "bilingual" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (3)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
145 translations across 60 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- tweetalig adj (speaking two languages)
Albanian
1 entries- dygjuhësh adj (speaking two languages)
Arabic
2 entries- ثُنَائِي اَللُّغَة adj (speaking two languages)
- ثُنَائِي اَللُّغَة adj (written in two languages)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
4 entries- ܬܪܲܝܵܢܲܬ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ adj (written in two languages)
- ܬܪܲܝܵܢܵܝ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ adj (speaking two languages)
- ܬܪܲܝܵܢܵܝ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ adj (written in two languages)
- ܬܪܲܝܵܢܵܝܲܬ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ adj (speaking two languages)
Asturian
2 entries- billingüe adj (speaking two languages)
- billingüe adj (written in two languages)
Basque
3 entries- elebidun adj (speaking two languages)
- elebidun adj (written in two languages)
- elebidun noun (a person who is bilingual)
Belarusian
2 entries- двухмо́ўны adj (speaking two languages)
- дзвюхмо́ўны adj (speaking two languages)
Bengali
2 entries- দ্বিভাষিক adj (speaking two languages)
- দ্বিভাষিক adj (written in two languages)
Breton
2 entries- divyezhek adj (speaking two languages)
- divyezhek adj (written in two languages)
Bulgarian
2 entries- двуезичен adj (speaking two languages)
- двуезичен adj (written in two languages)
Catalan
3 entries- bilingüe adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingüe adj (written in two languages)
- bilingüe noun (a person who is bilingual)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 雙語 /双语 adj (speaking two languages)
- 雙語 /双语 adj (written in two languages)
- 會雙語的人 /会双语的人 noun (a person who is bilingual)
Czech
2 entries- dvojjazyčný adj (speaking two languages)
- dvojjazyčný adj (written in two languages)
Danish
4 entries- tosproget adj (speaking two languages)
- tosproget adj (written in two languages)
- tvesproget adj (speaking two languages)
- tvesproget adj (written in two languages)
Dutch
3 entries- tweetalig adj (speaking two languages)
- tweetalig adj (written in two languages)
- tweetalige noun (a person who is bilingual)
Esperanto
4 entries- dulingva adj (speaking two languages)
- dulingva adj (written in two languages)
- dulingvano noun (a person who is bilingual)
- dulingvulo noun (a person who is bilingual)
Estonian
2 entries- kakskeelne adj (speaking two languages)
- kakskeelne adj (written in two languages)
Finnish
3 entries- kaksikielinen adj (speaking two languages)
- kaksikielinen adj (written in two languages)
- kaksikielinen noun (a person who is bilingual)
French
1 entries- bilingue adj (speaking two languages)
Galician
3 entries- bilingüe adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingüe adj (written in two languages)
- bilingüe noun (a person who is bilingual)
Georgian
4 entries- ბილინგვური adj (written in two languages)
- ორენიანი adj (speaking two languages)
- ორენოვანი adj (speaking two languages)
- ორენოვანი adj (written in two languages)
German
3 entries- bilingual adj (speaking two languages)
- zweisprachig adj (speaking two languages)
- zweisprachig adj (written in two languages)
Greek
2 entries- δίγλωσσος adj (speaking two languages)
- δίγλωσσος adj (written in two languages)
Hebrew
1 entries- דו־לשוני adj (speaking two languages)
Hindi
2 entries- द्विभाषी adj (speaking two languages)
- द्विभाषी adj (written in two languages)
Hungarian
4 entries- bilingvis adj (speaking two languages)
- kétnyelvű adj (speaking two languages)
- kétnyelvű adj (written in two languages)
- kétnyelvű noun (a person who is bilingual)
Icelandic
3 entries- tveggja mála adj (written in two languages)
- tvímála adj (written in two languages)
- tvítyngdur adj (speaking two languages)
Ido
2 entries- bilingua adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingua adj (written in two languages)
Interlingua
2 entries- bilingue adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingue adj (written in two languages)
Irish
2 entries- dátheangach adj (speaking two languages)
- dátheangach adj (written in two languages)
Italian
1 entries- bilingue adj (speaking two languages)
Japanese
2 entries- バイリンガルの adj (speaking two languages)
- 二言語に通じた人 noun (a person who is bilingual)
Khmer
2 entries- ពីរភាសា adj (speaking two languages)
- ឧភយពាក្យ adj (speaking two languages)
Korean
1 entries- 두 개(個) 국어(國語)를 말하는 사람 noun (a person who is bilingual)
Latin
1 entries- bilinguis adj (speaking two languages)
Macedonian
2 entries- двоја́зичен adj (speaking two languages)
- двоја́зичен adj (written in two languages)
Malay
1 entries- dwibahasa adj (written in two languages)
Manx
3 entries- daa-hengagh adj (speaking two languages)
- daa-hengagh adj (written in two languages)
- daa-hengagh noun (a person who is bilingual)
Māori
2 entries- reorua adj (speaking two languages)
- reorua adj (written in two languages)
Navajo
1 entries- saad naaki yidiitsʼaʼ adj (speaking two languages)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bilingv adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingval adj (speaking two languages)
- tospråklig adj (speaking two languages)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- bilingv adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingval adj (speaking two languages)
- tospråkleg adj (speaking two languages)
Pashto
2 entries- دوه ژبی adj (speaking two languages)
- دوه ژبی adj (written in two languages)
Persian
2 entries- دوزبانه adj (speaking two languages)
- دوزبانه adj (written in two languages)
Polish
4 entries- bilingwalny adj (speaking two languages)
- dwujęzyczny adj (speaking two languages)
- dwujęzyczny adj (written in two languages)
- bilingwista noun (a person who is bilingual)
Portuguese
4 entries- bilingue adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingue adj (written in two languages)
- bilíngue adj (speaking two languages)
- bilíngue adj (written in two languages)
Romanian
4 entries- bilingv adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingv adj (written in two languages)
- bilingv noun (a person who is bilingual)
- bilingvă noun (a person who is bilingual)
Russian
3 entries- двуязы́чный adj (speaking two languages)
- двуязы́чный adj (written in two languages)
- билингв noun (a person who is bilingual)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- dà-chànanach adj (speaking two languages)
- dà-chànanach adj (written in two languages)
- dà-theangach adj (speaking two languages)
- dà-theangach adj (written in two languages)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bȉlingvālan adj (speaking two languages)
- dvojèzičan adj (speaking two languages)
- dvojèzičan adj (written in two languages)
- би̏лингва̄лан adj (speaking two languages)
Slovak
1 entries- dvojjazyčný adj (speaking two languages)
Spanish
3 entries- bilingüe adj (speaking two languages)
- bilingüe adj (written in two languages)
- bilingüe noun (a person who is bilingual)
Swedish
1 entries- tvåspråkig adj (speaking two languages)
Tagalog
2 entries- dalwika adj (speaking two languages)
- dalwika adj (written in two languages)
Thai
2 entries- สองภาษา adj (speaking two languages)
- สองภาษา adj (written in two languages)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྐད་གཉིས་སྨྲ་བ། adj (speaking two languages)
Ukrainian
1 entries- двомо́вний adj (speaking two languages)
Vietnamese
2 entries- song ngữ adj (speaking two languages)
- song ngữ adj (written in two languages)
Welsh
2 entries- dwyieithog adj (speaking two languages)
- dwyieithog adj (written in two languages)
Yiddish
2 entries- צוויישפּראַכיק adj (speaking two languages)
- צוויישפּראַכיק adj (written in two languages)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
We created a freely available English-Japanese bilingual corpus.
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Esperanto speakers are in principle still at least bilingual.
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