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Definition of Sprachgefuhl
1. Noun. An intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language. "Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl"
Definition of Sprachgefuhl
1. Noun. (rare) the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language ¹
2. Noun. (rare) the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language ¹
3. Noun. (rare) the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sprachgefuhl
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprachgefuhl
Literary usage of Sprachgefuhl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1902)
"Hence, the consensus of usage determines the meaning which a word bears, and this
consensus is governed at all times by the sprachgefuhl, so that a language ..."
2. The Teaching of German in Secondary Schools by Elijah William Bagster-Collins (1904)
"It may not be a very definite or •wide-reaching feeling for what is idiomatic,
still every little we can teach of " sprachgefuhl" is important for tne ..."
3. The Dative of Agency: A Chapter of Indo-European Case-Syntax by Alexander Green (1913)
"The court of last instance, in this matter at least, must not be the Greek
sprachgefuhl at its acme of development, but all those often intangible tokens ..."
4. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"That pervasive influence which we call the sprachgefuhl' must always have exerted
a controlling effect on the action of the early language-makers, ..."
5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 72 by Harvard University Department of Classics Staff, Department Of Classi Harvard University (1906)
"... in a manner in use in the language in its technical sense ready to be translated
as soon as a more patriotic sprachgefuhl should suggest that course. ..."
6. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1885)
"... the mental processes involved are, amid many variations, w analogous that the
linguistic faculty—the sprachgefuhl—is thereby aroused and qualified to ..."
7. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1920)
"... sentences each) in German, and one hundred and seventy-five in French, are
taught. This number is considered sufficient to give sprachgefuhl. ..."
8. Principles of Secondary Education by Paul Monroe (1914)
"It has little or no influence upon the growth of language sense (sprachgefuhl).
The foreign language is kept in the background, and is used as a mere ..."
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