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# language

«language» in Mova's school dictionary: **the words that people use to speak and write, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (language, languages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A language is the words that people use to speak and write, like English, French or Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#m1)

2) Language is the way people talk and use words in general. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#m2)

3) Sign language uses hand signs instead of spoken words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#m3)

4) A computer language is a set of words and rules for telling a computer what to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#m4)

5) Bad language means rude words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

pupils or people sorted by the languages they speak; books in each language; in school: English language lessons, learning a foreign language; in everyday life: many families speak two languages at home; phrases: «first language», «foreign language», «body language», «sign language», «mind your language»

### examples

- 12 children speak two languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x1)
- The class learns 1 new language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x2)
- 15 pupils study French and 10 study German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x3)
- How many speak both languages? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x4)
- In Canada, people speak English and French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x5)
- Sam's first language is Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x6)
- Our deaf friend taught us some sign language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x7)
- His body language showed he was nervous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x8)
- Python is a computer language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x9)
- Please don't use bad language in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x10)
- Every one speaks these words in his own language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/language/#x11)

### note

Counted groups; trap: some people can be in both groups, so do not just add (all = first + second − both). Names of languages start with a capital letter: English, Irish, Maori. Countable: a language, two languages.

### In the corpora

- ["Large language model" means a huge program that has learned the patterns of how words are used.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/6/)
- [A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/7/)
- [Translation tools help families who speak other languages understand letters, but they can make mistakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/6/)
- [Important translations should be checked by a person who speaks both languages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/7/)
- [Some hopes are big and serious: cures for diseases, help learning in any language.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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