Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.
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Foreign language
/fɔːɹɪn lɛŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
Synonyms for "foreign language" (32 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (7)
Adjective(2 words)
acquired languageforeign tongue
Noun(5 words)
borrowed termeducational terminstructional descriptorlanguage classlanguage course
Strong matches (9)
Noun(6 words)
Determiner(1 words)
non catalan
Adjective(2 words)
non catalan languagenon german language
Related words (16)
Adjective(8 words)
non greek languagenon portuguese languagenon romanian languagenon-french languagenonmayan languageother-languagesecond languages for instructionsecondary language
Adverb(1 words)
non italian language
Noun(6 words)
non portuguese-languagenon-portuguese languagenonnativenonnative languagesecond languagesecond-language
Determiner(1 words)
non romance language
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
11 entriesMore specific
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Collocations
12 entriesforeign language classforeign language courseforeign language educationforeign language homeworkforeign language studyforeign language teacherforeign-language classroomforeign-language learningforeign-language materialsforeign-language studyforeign-language teacherforeign-language vocabulary
Inflections
3 entriesforeign languagesmore foreign-languagemost foreign-language
Derivations
5 entriesforeign language educationforeign language instructionforeign language learningforeign language studyforeign-language
Translations
87 translations across 70 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gjuhë e huaj noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Arabic
1 entries- لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Armenian
1 entries- օտար լեզու noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xarici dil noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Basque
2 entries- erdara noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- erdera noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Belarusian
1 entries- заме́жная мо́ва noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Bulgarian
1 entries- чужд ези́к noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Burmese
2 entries- ဘာသန္တရ noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- ဘာသာခြား noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Catalan
1 entries- llengua estrangera noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Chinese
2 entries- вэйү noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 外語 /外语 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 外國語 /外国语 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 外語 /外语 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 番話 /番话 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 外國語 /外国语 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 外文 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 外語 /外语 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- ecnebiy til noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Czech
1 entries- cizí jazyk noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Danish
1 entries- fremmedsprog noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Dutch
1 entries- vreemde taal noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Esperanto
1 entries- fremda lingvo noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Estonian
1 entries- võõrkeel noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Finnish
1 entries- vieras kieli noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
French
1 entries- langue étrangère noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Galician
1 entries- lingua estranxeira noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Georgian
1 entries- უცხო ენა noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
German
1 entries- Fremdsprache noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 番話 /番话 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Hebrew
2 entries- לַעַז noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- שָׂפָה זָרָה noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Hindi
1 entries- विदेशी भाषा noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Hungarian
1 entries- idegen nyelv noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Icelandic
1 entries- útlenska noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Indonesian
1 entries- bahasa asing noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Irish
1 entries- teanga iasachta noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Italian
1 entries- lingua straniera noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Japanese
1 entries- 外国語 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Kazakh
1 entries- шет тілі noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Khmer
1 entries- ភាសាបរទេស noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Korean
2 entries- 외국어 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 외어 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- чет тили noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- чет элдик тили noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Lao
1 entries- ພາສາຕ່າງປະເທດ noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Latvian
1 entries- svešvaloda noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Lithuanian
1 entries- užsienio kalba noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Macedonian
1 entries- странски јазик noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Malay
1 entries- bahasa asing noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Nahuatl
1 entries- pinotlahtōlli noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- zimanê biyanî noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- zimanê ejnebî noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fremmedspråk noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Old English
1 entries- feorcumen noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Persian
1 entries- زبان خارجی noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Pirahã
1 entries- ’apagáiso noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Polish
1 entries- język obcy noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Portuguese
2 entries- idioma estrangeiro noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- língua estrangeira noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Romanian
1 entries- limbă străină noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Russian
1 entries- иностра́нный язы́к noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- strani jezik noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- страни језик noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Slovak
1 entries- cudzí jazyk noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Slovene
1 entries- tuji jezik noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Spanish
1 entries- lengua extranjera noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Swedish
1 entries- främmande språk noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Tajik
1 entries- забони хориҷӣ noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Tamil
2 entries- அயல்மொழி noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- வேற்றுமொழி noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Tatar
1 entries- чит тел noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Teochew
2 entries- 番話 /番话 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- 番话 noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Thai
1 entries- ภาษาต่างประเทศ noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Turkish
1 entries- yabancı dil noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Turkmen
1 entries- daşary ýurt dili noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Ukrainian
1 entries- інозе́мна мо́ва noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Urdu
3 entries- بِدیسی زَبان noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- غیر مُلْکی زَبان noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
- پَرْدیسی زَبان noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Uyghur
1 entries- چەت تىلى noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Uzbek
1 entries- chet dil noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngoại ngữ noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Volapük
1 entries- foginänapük noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿרעמדע שפּראַך noun (any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.
Source: wiktionary