Word Meaning 母国語

ぼこくご bokokugo

母国語 is read as ぼこくご (bokokugo) and means language of one's country.

Meaning

English

  1. language of one's country
  2. mother tongue
  3. native language

Reading

Kana

ぼこくご

Romaji

bokokugo

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 27 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 15704 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

母語

ぼご

mother tongue

母国

ぼこく

one's home country

国語

こくご

Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan)

外国語

がいこくご

foreign language

中国語

ちゅうごくご

Chinese (language)

母語話者

ぼごわしゃ

native speaker

韓国語

かんこくご

Korean (language)

第二外国語

だいにがいこくご

second foreign language

各国語

かっこくご

each language

偽中国語

にせちゅうごくご

pseudo-Chinese

国語学

こくごがく

Japanese philology

国母

こくぼ

empress

Example Sentences

10

English is my native language.

What is your mother tongue?

Kabyle is my mother tongue.

His native language is French.

Japanese is our mother tongue.

English is not my native language.

Russian is my mother tongue.

Italian is my native language.

French is my mother tongue.

My mother tongue in addition to my mother country's native language is Japanese.