Bonn

See also: bon, bonn, and bønn

English

A view over downtown.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bonn.

Proper noun

Bonn

2. An independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany.
3. (metonymic, historical after 1999) The (West) German government.

Translations

a city in Germany

• Arabic: بُون m (bun)
• Bulgarian: Бон m (Bon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波恩 (zh) (Bō'ēn)

• Dutch: Bonn (nl)
• Farefare: Bɔn
• French: Bonn (fr)
• Georgian: ბონი (boni)
• German: Bonn (de) n
• Greek: Βόννη (el) (Vónni)
• Hebrew: בון
• Hindi: बॉन (bŏn)
• Hungarian: Bonn (hu)
• Icelandic: Bonn f
• Italian: Bonn (it)
• Japanese: ボン (ja) (Bon)
• Korean: 본 (ko) (Bon)
• Latin: Bonna (la), Castra Bonnensia, (medieval also) Verona
• Macedonian: Бон m (Bon)
• Marathi: बॉन (bŏn)
• Persian: بن (fa)
• Portuguese: Bona f, Bonn f
• Russian: Бонн (ru) m (Bonn)
• Spanish: Bonn (es)
• Thai: บอนน์ (bon)
• Ukrainian: Бонн m (Bonn)

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Middle High German Bunne, from Old High German Bunna, from Proto-West Germanic *Bunnā, from Latin Bonna. The Central Franconian form with /o/ (rather than /ɔ/) clearly continues the original Germanic -u-. See German Bonn for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bon/

Proper noun

Bonn n

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

Derived terms

• bönnsch, Bönnsch

Estonian

Proper noun

Bonn

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bonn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/

Proper noun

Bonn f

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

German

Etymology

From Middle High German Bonne, Bunne, from Old High German Bunna, from Proto-West Germanic *Bunnā, from Latin Bonna, short for Castra Bonnensia. The Germanic form shows its very old age in the replacement of -o- with -u-, which then also failed to undergo a-mutation because of the following nasal geminate. The modern German -o- is per se a regular development (cf. Sonne, Wonne), but was likely reinforced by readaptation to the Latin.

One theory relates it to the tribe Eburones. Folk etymology has proposed origin from dedication to Saint Boniface, but this is a crass anachronism. During the Middle Ages, Bonn was often called Verona in Latin texts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bonn n (proper noun, genitive Bonns or (optionally with an article) Bonn)

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

Derived terms

• Bonner
• bönnsch

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bonn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbonː]
• Hyphenation: Bonn
• Rhymes: -onː

Proper noun

Bonn

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

Declension

Inflection of Bonn

	singular	plural
nominative	Bonn	—
accusative	Bonnt	—
dative	Bonn-nak	—
instrumental	Bonn-nal	—
causal-final	Bonnért	—
translative	Bonn-ná	—
terminative	Bonnig	—
essive-formal	Bonnként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Bonnban	—
superessive	Bonnon	—
adessive	Bonn-nál	—
illative	Bonnba	—
sublative	Bonnra	—
allative	Bonnhoz	—
elative	Bonnból	—
delative	Bonnról	—
ablative	Bonntól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Bonné	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Bonnéi	—

Possessive forms of Bonn

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Bonnom	—
2nd person sing.	Bonnod	—
3rd person sing.	Bonnja	—
1st person plural	Bonnunk	—
2nd person plural	Bonnotok	—
3rd person plural	Bonnjuk	—

Derived terms

• bonni

Portuguese

Proper noun

Bonn f

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)

   Synonym: Bona