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communicative competences

communicative competences is the plural of communicative competence.

Meaning of communicative competence

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.

Questions about communicative competences

What is communicative competences the plural of?
Communicative competences is the plural of communicative competence.

Words near communicative competences in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: communicative competences (page history and authors); communicative competence (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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