Firma

See also: firma, fîrma, firmá, firmà, firmă, and firmą

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian firma. Cognate with English firm.

Pronunciation

• (Standard, Germany) IPA^(key): /fɪrma/, [ˈfɪʁ.mä], [ˈfɪɐ̯.mä]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Firma f (genitive Firma, plural Firmen)

1. A company, a business.
2. (specialist, law, economics) A firm, the name under which a company operates, as opposed to the actual legal entity.

Declension

Declension of Firma [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Firma	die	Firmen
genitive	einer	der	Firma	der	Firmen
dative	einer	der	Firma	den	Firmen
accusative	eine	die	Firma	die	Firmen

Hyponyms

• Abbruchfirma
• Briefkastenfirma
• Investmentfirma
• Scheinfirma

Related terms

• Firmenadresse
• Firmenkantine
• Firmenname

Descendants

• → Romanian: firmă
• → Turkish: firma

Further reading

• “Firma”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Firma” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Firma” in Duden online
• Firma on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de