Kölner
German edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Kölner m (strong, genitive Kölners, plural Kölner, feminine Kölnerin)
- inhabitant or native of Cologne
Declension edit
Declension of Kölner [masculine, strong]
Hypernyms edit
Adjective edit
Kölner (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Cologne
Usage notes edit
- Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.
Further reading edit
- “Kölner” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache