non-native

Collocations

5

ADJ.

against, english, english, good, harmless, invasive, possible, trying

VERB + NON-NATIVE

asking, confuse, experiment, guessing, like, mistakes, overused, sentences

NON-NATIVE + NOUN

berber, feather, french, language, languages, mexican, predators, speaker

PREP.

from, in, into, with

ADV.

ever, perhaps, sometimes, such

Definitions

adj

1

Not native; not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive.

Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).

The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted earlier this month of murdering a teacher, Ashling Murphy, in 2022.

noun

1

A person who is not native.

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Example Bank

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01

Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).

Wiktionary

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The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted

Wiktionary

03

I'm a non-native speaker of English and realize there is a lot that I still need to learn.

Tatoeba · #953813

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Native speakers sometimes make mistakes, but not usually the same kind of mistakes that non-native speakers make.

Tatoeba · #954200

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Some non-native speakers think they speak the language better than native speakers.

Tatoeba · #954274

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It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

Tatoeba · #1907470