intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language:it’s not genes or culture but Sprachgefühl that sets the French apart from the Finns, and the Russians from the Romanians
the essential character of a language:each language has its own personality, or Sprachgefühl, which limits its speakers to a certain mode of thought
Origin:
German, from Sprache 'speech, a language' + Gefühl 'feeling'
Sprachgefühl in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Sprachgefühl in the US English dictionary
