Appropriate
Appropriate adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.
Native and appropriate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Appropriate".
Native
Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Appropriate and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appropriate" instead an adjective "Native".
Both words in one sentence
- Later Call of Duty games have non-English-speaking soldiers speak their native languages whenever appropriate.
Source: Translation Convention -
A more appropriate choice for this game would have been the goonch catfish, which is just as large, just as dangerous to humans, and a native Nepalese species.
Source: Video Game / Far Cry 4 -
All voice acting is done in the appropriate language, with large amounts of dialogue among the Kanien'kehá:ka being done by native speakers and given subtitles; they never speak English unless it's appropriate to the situation or person, even if they know it fluently.
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