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sprachgefühl

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Sprach⋅ge⋅fühl

  [shprahkh-guh-fyl]
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–noun German.
a sensitivity to language, esp. for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
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sprach·ge·fühl   (shpräKH'gə-fül')   
n.  A feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate.

[German : Sprache, language (from Middle High German sprāche, from Old High German sprāhha) + Gefühl, feeling (from fühlen, to feel, from Middle High German vuelen, from Old High German vuolen; see pāl- in Indo-European roots).]
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