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translanguages

translanguages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of translanguage.

Meaning of translanguage

Verb

translanguage (third-person singular simple present translanguages, present participle translanguaging, simple past and past participle translanguaged)

  1. To make use of multiple languages in a single discourse.
    • Finally, the discussion that ensues about the reading material often takes place in Spanish with children encouraged to translanguage as they try out their ideas with new language practices.2013, Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century, →ISBN

Questions about translanguages

What is translanguages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Translanguages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of translanguage.

Words near translanguages in the dictionary

  1. translaminarly
  2. translanguage
  3. translanguaged
  4. translanguager
  5. translanguagers
  6. translanguages
  7. translanguaging
  8. translanguagings
  9. translaryngeal
  10. translatabilities
  11. translatability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: translanguages (page history and authors); translanguage (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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