colloquial

Modifies a noun

• Hindi: What makes Colloquial Hindi your best choice in personal language learning?
• dialect: The colloquial dialect is no doubt accurate enough, for this was one form of speech he would have heard regularly in the trenches.
• expression: To use a colloquial expression, the group is heaving with new people arriving all the time, which is fantastic!
• phrase: She was patient enough to help me with the light homework assignments, and added a stock of useful colloquial phrases to my vocabulary.
• speech: They have changed the language to modern English, including colloquial speech.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Old English ); they might be either very formal or very colloquial words.
• too: They wanted to steer between a register of language that was too colloquial and one that was too formal.
• often: This is often colloquial, and is also a way or new verbs to enter the language.
• not: The Greek of the New Testament is not colloquial.
• even: The style is dense but lively, even colloquial.