"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 • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 12

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 20

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

Kolokacji: 7

(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

1. civil tongue = cywilny język civil tongue

2. ancestral tongue = rodowy język ancestral tongue

Now, he said, most Singaporeans were taught in English, with their ancestral tongue a second language.
Others worry about younger people losing touch with their ancestral tongue.
Today, in 28 villages like this one, a tribe of 18,000 people operates schools where the ancestral tongue is taught.
Among themselves both kinds used ancestral tongues, unless Lunarian was all that they had in common.
It is possible that all oral languages spoken in the world today are related by direct or indirect descent from a single ancestral tongue.
Finally, many ethnic Gaddang have migrated to other countries, and their children are not learning the ancestral tongue.
It's the very latest fad among Dartmouth undergraduates, cussing in one's ancestral tongue.
This may indicate the loss of their ancestral tongue by at least some of the tribes.
He passed beneath trees whose branches sang to him in ancient, ancestral tongues.
The very success of English as a global language is prompting a revival of ancestral tongues.

(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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