The phrase "a native gift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a talent or ability that someone possesses naturally, without needing to learn or practice it.
Example: "Her ability to play the piano beautifully is truly a native gift that she has had since childhood."
Alternatives: "an innate talent" or "a natural ability."
The family moved several times during the second world war, further disrupting the young Mandelbrot's education, but with the result that he preserved a native gift for shape that might, he suggests, otherwise have been drummed out of him by a conventional education.
As a book, the story is movie-obsessed: Vikar has a tattoo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his bald head and a native gift for film..
That native gift along with a solid (but reserved) sense of swing have propelled this 24-year-old from Long Island into a spotlight so bright that the hoopla surrounding her has sparked resentment among some jazz purists.
But even with the high-quality icons, Giftd will still have a hard time competing with the native gift stores that are increasingly common on social networks (Hi5 just launched one, and MySpace has one in the works).
You'll never match him, for you haven't his native gift of momentarily taking leave of himself and becoming a little universe.
Now, at last, she seems to realise that detachment is a matter of choice, and connection can always be recovered; it is, one might say, our native gift.
His interest in abstraction and surrealism was not at his core, it has been argued, and such borrowed styles conflicted with his native gift.
Puccini in this little opera - it flashes by in 48 minutes - is true to the old native gift of Italy for the comedy of genial roguishness.
Telling the story of the young, impassioned hero, Julien Sorel, as he exerts himself to rise above his humble station using a mixture of native gifts and hypocrisy, Stendhal wrote in a style inimical to both Classicists and Romantics alike; and so the book reads astonishingly freshly today.
Perhaps it was this immersion in an alien medium that freed him to appreciate his own native gifts.
Phelps had abundant native gifts, but Bowman also saw in him an uncommon knack for responding to the kinds of pressure that make most children miserable, coupled with an absolute distaste for losing and a full-blown, true-to-life embodiment of swimming's flakiest and most vaunted concept: a feel for the water.
