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# conversational

«conversational» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with conversation, or like ordinary friendly talk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (conversational); adverb (conversationally)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with conversation, or like ordinary friendly talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#m1)

2) Good enough to have simple conversations in a language, as in «conversational French». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, a conversational tone is relaxed and friendly, like talking to a friend, not formal. In language lessons, conversational skills mean you can chat simply. In computing, a conversational program, like a chatbot, talks with you.

### examples

- The book is written in a conversational style. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x1)
- She speaks conversational French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x2)
- He said it in a conversational tone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x3)
- The chatbot is a conversational program. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x4)
- Letters to friends can be conversational. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x5)
- I'm working on my conversational Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/#x6)

### note

Formal register is the opposite of conversational. Adverb: conversationally.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conversational» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conversational/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.