(adjective)
a relative measure of a person's ability to
use and
understand a language:
usually suggests an evolved mastery of not only what a word means, but also the connotations that are related to it
On a particularly balmy day in Moscow, I exclaimed, "ya tyoply," or "I'm hot." If I were fluent in
Russian, I would have known that "ya tyoply" suggests that "I am
horny," and that "mne teplo," or
literally "it is hot to me," is more appropriate.