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母语

mǔ yǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 母語

母语 (mǔ yǔ) means "native language". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 母语 means

1. native language
2. mother tongue
3. linguisticsparent language

The characters in 母语

• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 我的母语是日语。
  My mother tongue is Japanese.
• 她的母语是法语。
  French is her mother tongue.
• 你的母语是什幺？
  What is your mother tongue?
• 英语是我的母语。
  English is my native language.
• 法语是我的母语。
  French is my mother tongue.
• 我不是个母语者。
  I'm not a native speaker.

Where 母语 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–ná (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mǔ yǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.