also: ネイティヴ · ネーティブ · ネーティヴ · ネイチブ
native; indigenous
Used as an adjectival noun or noun to describe something or someone native to a place, language, or environment. Often used in contexts like ネイティブな発音 (native pronunciation) or ネイティブの植物 (native plants).
He's a native speaker of English, so his pronunciation is clean.
She speaks native English.
I'm researching the native plants of this region.
Abbreviation of ネイティブスピーカー. Commonly used in language learning contexts to refer to a native speaker of a language.
See also: ネイティブスピーカー
There is a native-speaker teacher in the English conversation class.
I rarely have a chance to speak with a native speaker.
She speaks English with pronunciation on par with a native speaker.
I was taught the trick to pronunciation by a native speaker.
Even native speakers sometimes get the usage of this word wrong.
外来 describes something introduced from abroad, the opposite of ネイティブ (native/indigenous) in phrases like 外来種 vs ネイティブの植物.
ナイーブ (naive, innocent) sounds similar to ネイティブ (native) but means something completely different, so learners often mix up the two loanwords.
native support
smartphone native; person who grew up with smartphones
native mode
digital native
native support
native check; native speaker review
native compiler
native speaker
native language
native format
Most common katakana spelling for this loanword.
Alternative spelling reflecting the English 'v' sound; less common but seen.
Variant with long vowel; rarely used.
Loanword from English 'native'.