Frankfurt

See also: frankfurt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

German Frankfurt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹæŋkfə(ɹ)t/
  • Homophone: Frankfort (sometimes)
  • (file)

Proper noun

Frankfurt

  1. Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
    1. (metonymically) The German financial industry.
      • 1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:
        The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.
    2. (metonymically) The European Central Bank.
  2. Frankfurt an der Oder, a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Proper noun

Frankfurt m

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Derived terms

German

Etymology

Literally "ford of the Franks," from Franke and Furt (ford).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Usage notes

  • In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.

Quotations

  • 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:
    Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfrɒŋkfurt]
  • Rhymes: -urt
  • Hyphenation: Frank‧furt

Proper noun

Frankfurt

  1. Frankfurt (the largest city in Hesse, Germany)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Frankfurt
accusative Frankfurtot
dative Frankfurtnak
instrumental Frankfurttal
causal-final Frankfurtért
translative Frankfurttá
terminative Frankfurtig
essive-formal Frankfurtként
essive-modal
inessive Frankfurtban
superessive Frankfurton
adessive Frankfurtnál
illative Frankfurtba
sublative Frankfurtra
allative Frankfurthoz
elative Frankfurtból
delative Frankfurtról
ablative Frankfurttól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Frankfurté
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Frankfurtéi
Possessive forms of Frankfurt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Frankfurtom
2nd person sing. Frankfurtod
3rd person sing. Frankfurtja
1st person plural Frankfurtunk
2nd person plural Frankfurtotok
3rd person plural Frankfurtjuk

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • frankfurti

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/, /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/

Proper noun

Frankfurt f

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
    Synonym: Francoforte
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Frankfurt m (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Swedish

Proper noun

Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)

  1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
  2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
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