母语

母语 mǔyǔ in a sentence

Mother tongue (mother language)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

母语 (mǔyǔ) means Mother tongue (mother language). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他的 母语 是汉语。

Tā de mǔyǔ shì Hànyǔ.

His mother tongue is Chinese.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 母语

学外语时容易受 母语 影响。

Xué wàiyǔ shí róngyì shòu mǔyǔ yǐngxiǎng.

When learning a foreign language one is easily influenced by one's mother tongue.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 母语

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How is 母语 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 母语 (mǔyǔ, "Mother tongue (mother language)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 母语 an HSK word?

Yes — 母语 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 母语 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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