Words / A1

TUNG/tʌŋ/

Your tongue is the soft part in your mouth that you use to taste and speak. Taste with your tongue; bite your tongue. Teeth are the hard white parts; lips are on the outside of the mouth. Countable: a tongue (you have one). Mother tongue means your first language — later phrase.

Meaning

The soft part in your mouth that you use to taste and speak.

Examples

• “Do not bite your tongue.”
• “The soup burnt my tongue.”
• “Stick out your tongue, said the doctor.”

Good to know

in your mouth. Contrast: teeth, lips. Phrase later: mother tongue.

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