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non-native speakers

non-native speakers is the plural of non-native speaker.

Meaning of non-native speaker

Noun

non-native speaker (plural non-native speakers)

  1. Someone who has another native tongue than the language being used.
    • Although double modality is outside the scope of Standard English and is not addressed in the school syllabus, it is a widespread phenomenon which non-native speakers of English might find confusing and should at least be aware of.2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and Culture, volume 3, number 2, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    allophone
    Antonyms:
    native speaker

Questions about non-native speakers

What is non-native speakers the plural of?
Non-native speakers is the plural of non-native speaker.

Words near non-native speakers in the dictionary

  1. non-narrative
  2. non-national
  3. non-nationals
  4. non-native
  5. non-native speaker
  6. non-native speakers
  7. non-native species
  8. non-native-speaker
  9. non-natives
  10. non-negative
  11. non-negligible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-native speakers (page history and authors); non-native speaker (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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