Frankfurt
See also: frankfurt
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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.
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Frankfurt-am-Main
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Frankfurt-an-der-Oder
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Frankfurt m
- 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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Literally "ford of the Franks," from Franke and Furt (“ford”).
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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 edit
- In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.
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- 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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Frankfurt
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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 | — |
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- Frankfurt am Main
- Majna-Frankfurt (rare)
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Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.
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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)
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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)
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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)