Example sentences for: loanwords

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

  • The above do not include those loanwords deriving from words earlier borrowed by Hindi from Persian and Arabic, which are (in addition to those already cited):

  • Many Hindi loanwords are simply transliterations of the Hindi originals.

  • All Hindi loanwords in English, of course, are not as well known or as frequently used as those listed above; indeed, many are obscure in the extreme and are probably never used in speech or encountered in print by the overwhelming majority of English speakers.

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

  • Thailand is the only southeast Asian nation to have avoided colonization by a western power, so there are significantly fewer English loanwords in Thai than there are French in Lao, Vietnamese, and Khmer, English in Malay and Burmese, and Dutch in Indonesia's various languages.


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