Words similar to idiomatic
Example sentences for: idiomatic
How can you use “idiomatic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
However, students of a foreign language soon realize that to master it fully, it is not enough to know the grammatical structure and basic vocabulary: one must also memorize a fair number of phrases and idiomatic expressions and, as a further step, proverbs and sayings.
But none of them is really acceptable as idiomatic to English speakers.
Those of us who deal with the lexicographic side of language are well aware of what Jeans characterizes as the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.
I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.
German speakers are of course far less likely to use this from in English, for in their own language they have no alternative to can : Es kann sein, Es konnte regnen . They will therefore tend to use can forms even where they are not idiomatic in English.
Loading...