Example sentences for: loanwords

How can you use “loanwords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Curiously, there are only 118 words pertaining to Physics among the loanwords cited, and one would have expected more.

  • Paul Blackford's article [Some English Loanwords in Thai, XXI, 1,5] brought to my mind my favourite chunk of Thai vocabulary and, incidentally, another loanword from English (from Thai for Travellers , DK Arts, Bangkok):

  • (In this article, Hindi is used to cover loanwords which etymologists attribute to either Hindi or Urdu.

  • But the verb kvell , which exactly expresses that emotion, is already (like other Yiddish loanwords, such as chutzpah, meshugga and nosh ) to be found in the Supplement to the Oxford-English Dictionary .

  • For example, out of a sampling of 481 Hindi loanwords (that is, I know, an odd number for a sampling of any kind, but it happens to be the number I had carded as of the moment I began writing this article), 167 were borrowed by Hindi from Sanskrit and another four from Pakrit.


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