"tongue" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tongue sustantivo

sustantivo + tongue

Kolokacji: 16

mother tongue • tongue of flame • silver tongue • tongue of fire • beef tongue • ...

tongue + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 11

Mother tongue language • tongue depressor • tongue twister • tongue tip • Tongue River • ...

tongue + verbo

Kolokacji: 83

tongue licks • tongue feels • tongue lolls • tongue flicks • tongue wagging • ...

verbo + tongue

Kolokacji: 59

hold one's tongue • bite one's tongue • swell of tongue • stick out one's tongue • use one's tongue • click one's tongue • ...

adjetivo + tongue

Kolokacji: 93

native tongue • sharp tongue • long tongue • pink tongue • foreign tongue • strange tongue • red tongue • common tongue • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 12

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 20

(1) native, foreign, strange, unknown, alien, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. native tongue = język ojczysty native tongue

Native Tongue

2. foreign tongue = zagraniczny język foreign tongue

3. strange tongue = dziwny język strange tongue

4. unknown tongue = nieznany język unknown tongue

5. alien tongue = obcy język alien tongue

6. indigenous tongue = autochtoniczny język indigenous tongue

They once spoke the now-extinct Tonkawa language believed to have been a language isolate not related to any other indigenous tongues.
After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side.
According to the 2005 Census, the municipality had a total population of 4,780, many of whom were proficient of an indigenous tongue.
In the local indigenous tongue, the mountain is called Turututu, but records show settlers calling it Black Butte as early as 1855.
Current research doesn't indicate if that was or was not a translation from an indigenous tongue, e.g. Creek or Seminole.
Today, while French is the official language, 28 indigenous tongues are still spoken.
Under an ambitious plan announced in January, the French Government has told state schools and teachers in regions with indigenous tongues to start preparing for bilingual education.
Whoever becomes president, analysts say, must put together a coalition representative of this multicultural country, where 50 percent of the 8.3 million people speak an indigenous tongue.
But few materials are available in Mixteco or other indigenous tongues, in part because they barely exist in written form.
Yanacocha - "black lake" in the indigenous Quechua tongue - sits in one of the poorest agricultural regions of Peru.

7. outlandish tongue = dziwaczny język outlandish tongue

(2) sharp, rough, guttural, harsh, tart, ...

Kolokacji: 12

(3) long, little, small, tiny, large, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(4) pink, red, blue, purple, golden, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(5) common, vulgar, respective

Kolokacji: 3

(6) ancient, old, pointed

Kolokacji: 3

(7) human, numb

Kolokacji: 2

(8) black, wicked, evil, foul, filthy, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(9) civil, ancestral

Kolokacji: 2

(10) swollen, warm, hot, fiery, Loving, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(11) dry, sticky, parched, moist

Kolokacji: 4

(12) wet, loose, local, Indian, stiff

Kolokacji: 5

(13) thick, glib, narrow, thin

Kolokacji: 4

(14) quick, clever, agile, prehensile, nimble

Kolokacji: 5

(15) different, original, new

Kolokacji: 3

(16) smooth, wooden, hairy, flickering

Kolokacji: 4

(17) silent, eloquent

Kolokacji: 2

(18) barbarous, malicious

Kolokacji: 2

(19) German, Germanic

Kolokacji: 2

(20) African, Slavic

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + tongue

Kolokacji: 18

of one's tongue • in one's tongue • with one's tongue • on one's tongue • to one's tongue • ...

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