native – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of native

Adjective: native

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore native
Superlativemost native

Sample Sentences

  • This is my native land.
  • English is not my native language.
  • I need a volunteer native New Yorker for my next joke…
  • In my natyf language I wyl not opres, / More of her werke, for it is obscure; / Who wyl therof knowe all the perfeytnes / In phylosophy he shall fynde it ryght sure, / Whyche all the trouth can to hym discure. [1509, Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem (Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages; vol. XVIII.), reprinted from the edition of 1555, London: Percy Society, published 1846, cap. xxiv. “Of the five internall wittes.”, stanza 14, lines 1–5, page 111:]
  • The Language I haue learn’d these forty yeares (My natiue English) now I must forgo. [1593, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act I, scene iii, line 160:]
  • Thy sentence…robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath. [ibidem, line 173]
  • They have a native language of their owne, but the Persian tongue is understood by most. [1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, second edition, page 37:]
  • Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound, / Content to breathe his native air / In his own ground. [c. 1700, Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude, first quatrain:]
  • Those of the western church were obliged to acquire some knowledge of Latin; and for Greek, to those of the eastern church it was still (with a few corruptions) their native language. [1780, James Harris, Philological Inquiries (pages 385–539), in The Works of James Harris, Esq., with an account of His Life and Character, by his son, The Earl of Malmesbury., Oxford: printed by J. Vincent for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, London, published 1841, part III (pages 454–539), chapter xiv. “Superior Literature and Knowledge both of the Greek and Latin Clergy […] ” (pages 529–533), page 529:]
  • […] But to the Snake those accents sweet were known / His native tongue and hers; […] [1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto I, stanza xix, lines 5–6:]
  • Their habits, as we can see them transacted, are native. [1841, George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians, volume I, published 1844, page 6:]
  • His name has been metamorphosed in Syria and Egypt into the more native-sounding Abulides. [1876, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Alfred Plummer, Hippolytus and Callistus, volume II, page 87:]
  • They were dressed in their native costumes. [1877, Maria Margaret Grant, The Sun-Maid. A Romance., page viii:]
  • Many native artists studied abroad.
  • Native peoples in the continental United States are called Native Americans or American Indians.
  • native oysters or strawberries
  • Clover is not native to the Americas, but it is firmly established there.
  • The naturalized Norway maple often outcompetes the native North American sugar maple.
  • This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
  • The native integer size is sixteen bits.
  • cloud native, crypto native
  • native aluminium
  • native salt
  • Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. [1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:]
  • native dust
  • Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee Native Soile, these happie Walks and Shades,
  • Fit haunt of Gods? [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The head is not more native to the heart, […]
  • Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive.
2. Compare also inborn. See: Latin Adjectives 'nātīvus'.

Verbs referencing "native"

German Adjectives nativ, Finnish Adjectives natiivi.