Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.
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Inborn
//ˈɪn.bɔːn//
Synonyms for "inborn" (48 found)
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Related words (24)
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Synonyms
4 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 14 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐγγενής adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
- ἔμφυτος adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вроден adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
- наследствен adj (Inherited or hereditary)
Catalan
1 entries- innat adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Dutch
1 entries- aangeboren adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
French
1 entries- inné adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
German
1 entries- angeboren adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Kazakh
1 entries- туа adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Macedonian
1 entries- вроден adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Manx
1 entries- dooghyssagh adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- medfødt adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- medfødd adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Old English
1 entries- onġeboren adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Russian
2 entries- врождённый adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
- прирождённый adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Spanish
1 entries- innato adj (Innate, possessed by an organism at birth)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
One's success in life has little to do with one's inborn gift.
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There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
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inborn talent
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