(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.