English-Swedish translations for mother tongue

• modersmål ett
  Jag fortsätter nu på mitt modersmål.I shall continue in my mother tongue.
  Jag tänker nu fortsätta på mitt modersmål.I shall now continue in my mother tongue.
  Jag ska läsa upp artikel 152.3 på mitt modersmål.I shall read Article 152(3) in my mother tongue.

Definition of mother tongue

• The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language
• The language spoken by one’s ancestors
• Informal speech, as opposed to educated language

Examples

• His mother tongue is a relatively conservative dialect of Aramaic

Related words

• Mother Shipton Moth
• don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs
• mother I’d like to fuck
• refrigerator mother
• to sell one's own grandmother
• mother-in-law's tongue
• mother-to-be
• autohemotherapy
• tomotherapy