gebürtig Englisch:

The family moved from their native Germany to Chicago around the year 1830.

If you want to sound like a native speaker, you must be willing to practice saying the same sentence over and over in the same way that banjo players practice the same phrase over and over until they can play it correctly and at the desired tempo.

A child who is a native speaker usually knows many things about his or her language that a non-native speaker who has been studying for years still does not know and perhaps will never know.

The potato is native to the highlands of Central and South America.

Many native speakers of Japanese have trouble hearing the difference between B and V.

native (adj)

They came from all over the world to make their homes in this new land, which was thinly populated by native Indians.

I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page into my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.

If there are genuine differences between these two cultures, I think that the largest are certainly in what you think about foreigners studying your native language.

Native French speakers often add spaces before punctuation in other languages even though it is usually incorrect.

These are native American people. Look at the woman. Her hair is long and black. She's got festhers in her hair.

The Korean vocabulary is composed of three components: native words, Sino-Korean words and loanwords.

This generation of online daters, far more native to the Internet, are a lot less awkward than the first generation.

Of these, Taoism is a native religion, the others having been introduced from foreign lands.

Where were you born?

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'

Born in Japan, I make it a rule to have rice at dinner.

Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of how you live?

This is my little sister Sakiko. She was born the same year as me and is now studying for her exams.

Mr Yoshida was born in Yamagata prefecture, and graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a degree in oil painting.

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".

All people are born free and have the same rights and dignity. They are imbued with reason and conscience and should interact with each other in a spirit of brotherhood.

Surely he can not enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

There was once a time when most people didn't know who Christopher Columbus was, but then he was born.

You were alive when you were born and you are alive at this moment, so you must be alive any point in between. That implies everyone's life is a convex one.