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English
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Proper noun
Frankfurt
- Frankfurt am Main, the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany.
- (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.
- (metonymically) The European Central Bank.
- 2014 May 9, Dan O'Brien, “Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking”, in Irish Independent:
- Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.
- (metonymically) The German financial industry.
- Frankfurt an der Oder, a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany.
Derived terms
Translations
Frankfurt-am-Main
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Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
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Catalan
Etymology
Proper noun
Frankfurt m
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Synonym: Frankfurt del Main
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
- Synonym: Frankfurt de l'Oder
Derived terms
German
Etymology
Literally, “ford of the Franks”, from Franke and Furt (“ford”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- 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)
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Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- Frankfurt am Main
- Majna-Frankfurt (rare)
Derived terms
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frankfurt f
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Synonym: Francoforte
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Frankfurt m (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
Swedish
Proper noun
Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
- Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)
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- en:Frankfurt
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- ca:Frankfurt
- ca:Cities in Hesse
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- ca:Places in Hesse
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- de:Frankfurt
- de:Cities in Hesse
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/urt
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- hu:Frankfurt
- hu:Cities in Hesse
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- hu:Places in Hesse
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- pt:Frankfurt
- pt:Cities in Hesse
- pt:Cities in Germany
- pt:Places in Hesse
- pt:Places in Germany
- pt:Towns in Brandenburg
- pt:Towns in Germany
- pt:Places in Brandenburg
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
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- sh:Frankfurt
- sh:Cities in Hesse
- sh:Cities in Germany
- sh:Places in Hesse
- sh:Places in Germany
- sh:Towns in Brandenburg
- sh:Towns in Germany
- sh:Places in Brandenburg
- Swedish lemmas
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- sv:Frankfurt
- sv:Cities in Hesse
- sv:Cities in Germany
- sv:Places in Hesse
- sv:Places in Germany
- sv:Towns in Brandenburg
- sv:Towns in Germany
- sv:Places in Brandenburg