Kaunas

English

Proper noun

Kaunas

1. The second largest city of Lithuania.

Translations

city

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: Կաունաս (hy) (Kaunas)
• Belarusian: Ко́ўна n (Kóŭna), Ка́ўнас m (Káŭnas)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考那斯 (Kǎonàsī), 考納斯／考纳斯 (zh) (Kǎonàsī)

• Czech: Kaunas m
• Danish: Kaunas
• Dutch: Kaunas n
• Esperanto: Kaŭno
• Finnish: Kaunas (fi)
• French: Kaunas (fr) m
• Georgian: კაუნასი (ḳaunasi)
• German: Kauen (de) n, Kaunas (de) n
• Greek: Κάουνας (el) n (Káounas)
• Hebrew: קובנה m (kóvna)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: Kaunas (hu)
• Icelandic: Kaunas n
• Italian: Kaunas m
• Japanese: カウナス (kaunasu)
• Korean: 카우나스 (kaunaseu)
• Latvian: Kauņa
• Lithuanian: Kaunas (lt) m
• Old Ruthenian: Ко́вно n (Kóvno)
• Polish: Kowno (pl) n
• Portuguese: Kaunas f
• Russian: Ка́унас (ru) m (Káunas), (obsolete) Ко́вно n (Kóvno)
• Samogitian: Kauns
• Spanish: Kaunas (es) m
• Swedish: Kaunas (sv)
• Ukrainian: Ка́унас m (Káunas), (obsolete) Ко́вно n (Kóvno)
• Vietnamese: Kaunas
• Yiddish: קאָוונע f (kovne)

Anagrams

• Anuaks, Aukans, Unakas

Lithuanian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒʊˑnɐs]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Kau‧nas

Proper noun

Kaũnas m (uncountable, related adjective kaunìškis, demonym kauniẽtis, female demonym kauniẽtė) stress pattern 2

1. Kaunas (a city in Lithuania)
   1. Kaunas (a county of Lithuania)
   2. Kaunas (a city municipality in Lithuania)
   3. Kaunas (a district municipality of Lithuania)

Declension

    Declension of Kaũnas

nominative	Kaũnas
genitive	Kaũno
dative	Kaũnui
accusative	Kaũną
instrumental	Kaunù
locative	Kaunè
vocative	Kaũne

Further reading

• “Kaunas”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
• Kaunas in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Kaunas f

1. Kaunas (a city in Lithuania)