A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know.
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Non-native
Synonyms for "non-native" (2 found)
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5 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- ei-syntyperäinen adj (not indigenous)
- muukalainen adj (not indigenous)
German
1 entries- nichteinheimisch adj (not indigenous)
Japanese
1 entries- 非ネイティブ adj (not indigenous)
Russian
1 entries- неме́стный adj (not indigenous)
Sample sentences
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I'm a non-native speaker of English and realize there is a lot that I still need to learn.
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Native speakers sometimes make mistakes, but not usually the same kind of mistakes that non-native speakers make.
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Some non-native speakers think they speak the language better than native speakers.
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