One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
Used in a Sentence
cognates
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cognates.
Editorial note
My Chinese vocabulary still stinks after years of exposure because there are almost no cognates to build on, but the grammar is one of the easiest around.
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of cognates gathered in one view.
(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for cognates.
noun
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
noun
(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
noun
(law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
noun
(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
Example sentences
My Chinese vocabulary still stinks after years of exposure because there are almost no cognates to build on, but the grammar is one of the easiest around.
Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.
The fact that there are virtually no cognates makes the hurdle to amassing vocabulary simply gigantic, let alone the characters.
For me, this article seemed spot-on in only one area, namely the lack of cognates.
The main benefit is probably a built-in set of mnemonics for cognates (whether at the word level or the morpheme level).
Arbitrary conjugation logic prevents any sort of resourcefulness once you've exhausted cognates and repetitive conjugations.
While travelers should be aware of local idioms and the potential for false cognates, they can't exactly be blamed for lacking perfect knowledge either.
German has many of the same ablaut series as english, so where english has sink-sank-sunk and wink-winked-winked, the corresponding german cognates have sinken-sank-gesunken and winken-winkte-gewinkt.
While English <-> Spanish shares the romance language cognates (generally speaking, higher English comes from French, which shares a common ancestry), English <-> German shares grammar.
>Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.
New alphabet, little-to-no cognates, but still phonetic.
Because they seem like obvious cognates.
Quote examples
There is a lot of "Japanese English": words and phrases based on English which either don't have English cognates, or the obvious cognates have different meanings.
Also, the "compositive" nature of Chinese characters makes many words easy to remember despite not being cognates.
Which of those "obvious" rules are obvious cognates with other programming languages?
> Also, the "compositive" nature of Chinese characters makes many words easy to remember despite not being cognates.
Proper noun examples
Cognates in German elf and zwölf, Swedish elv and tolv.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use cognates in a sentence?
My Chinese vocabulary still stinks after years of exposure because there are almost no cognates to build on, but the grammar is one of the easiest around.
What does cognates mean?
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
What part of speech is cognates?
cognates is commonly used as noun.