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communicative competence

communicative competence noun: a language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

Noun

communicative competence (countable and uncountable, plural communicative competences)

  1. A language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

communicative competence meaning in Tamil

communicative competence in Tamil

புலப்படுத்து திறம்

Forms of communicative competence

pluralcommunicative competences

Questions about communicative competence

What does communicative competence mean?
Communicative competence means a language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.
What is communicative competence in Tamil?
Communicative competence in Tamil is புலப்படுத்து திறம். See Communicative competence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is communicative competence?
Communicative competence is a noun.
What is the plural of communicative competence?
The plural of communicative competence is communicative competences.

Words near communicative competence in the dictionary

  1. communications satellites
  2. communications zone
  3. communications zones
  4. Communicationssprache
  5. communicative
  6. communicative competence
  7. communicative competences
  8. communicatively
  9. communicativeness
  10. communicator
  11. communicators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: communicative competence (page history and authors); communicative competence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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