Frankfurt

See also: frankfurt

English

Alternative forms

• Francfort, Frankfort (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæŋkfə(ɹ)t/
• Homophone: Frankfort (sometimes)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Frankfurt

1. The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
   • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.

   1. (metonymic) 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.

   2. (metonymic) 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^[2]:

        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.

2. A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.

Derived terms

• Frankfurt case
• Frankfurt kitchen
• frankfurter
• frank
• Frankfurt School

Translations

Frankfurt-am-Main

• Afrikaans: Frankfurt
• Albanian: Frankfurti
• Arabic: فَرَانْكْفُورْت m (farānkfūrt)
• Armenian: Ֆրանկֆուրտ (Frankfurt)
• Azerbaijani: Frankfurt-Mayn, Frankfurt
• Basque: Frankfurt (eu)
• Belarusian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt)
• Bengali: ফ্রাঙ্কফুর্ট (phraṅkophurṭo)
• Bulgarian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt)
• Catalan: Frankfurt f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法蘭克福 / 法兰克福 (zh) (Fǎlánkèfú)

• Czech: Frankfurt (cs) m
• Danish: Frankfurt
• Dutch: Frankfurt n
• Esperanto: Frankfurto
• Estonian: Frankfurt (et)
• Finnish: Frankfurt (fi)
• French: Francfort (fr) f, Francfort-sur-le-Main (fr) f
• Galician: Frankfurt (gl)
• Georgian: მაინის ფრანკფურტი (mainis pranḳpurṭi), ფრანკფურტი (pranḳpurṭi)
• German: Frankfurt am Main (de) n

  Rhine Franconian: Frangford am Maa (Palatine)

• Greek: Φραγκφούρτη f (Fragkfoúrti)
• Hebrew: פרנקפורט m (frankfurt)
• Hindi: फ़्रैंकफ़र्ट (fra͠ikfarṭ)
• Hungarian: Frankfurt (hu)
• Icelandic: Frankfurt
• Ido: Frankfurt
• Indonesian: Frankfurt
• Italian: Francoforte (it) f, Francoforte sul Meno f
• Japanese: フランクフルト (ja) (Furankufuruto)
• Kazakh: Майндағы Франкфурт (Maindağy Frankfurt), Франкфурт (Frankfurt)
• Korean: 프랑크푸르트 (ko) (peurangkeupureuteu)
• Latvian: Frankfurte f
• Lithuanian: Frankfurtas m
• Macedonian: Франкфурт m (Frankfurt)
• Malay: Frankfurt
• Malayalam: ഫ്രാങ്ക്ഫർട്ട് (phrāṅkphaṟṭṭŭ)
• Marathi: फ्रांकफुर्ट n (phrāṅkphurṭa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Frankfurt

  Nynorsk: Frankfurt

• Persian: فرانکفورت
• Polish: Frankfurt (pl) m, Frankfurt nad Menem (pl)
• Portuguese: Francoforte, Frankfurt
• Punjabi: ਫ਼ਰਾਂਕਫ਼ੁਰਟ (farāṅkfuraṭ)
• Romanian: Frankfurt
• Russian: Фра́нкфурт (ru) m (Fránkfurt), Фра́нкфурт-на-Ма́йне (ru) m (Fránkfurt-na-Májne)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Франкфурт m

  Roman: Frankfurt m

• Slovak: Frankfurt m
• Slovene: Frankfurt m
• Spanish: Fráncfort (es) f, Fráncfort del Meno (es) f
• Swedish: Frankfurt (sv)
• Tamil: பிராங்க்ஃபுர்ட் (pirāṅkfurṭ)
• Thai: ฟรังค์ฟวร์ท (frang-fwart)
• Turkish: Frankfurt
• Ukrainian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt), Фрáнкфурт-на-Мáйні m (Fránkfurt-na-Májni)
• Vietnamese: Frankfurt, Phrăng-phuốc
• Yiddish: פֿראַנקפֿורט (frankfurt)

Frankfurt-an-der-Oder

• French: Francfort (fr) f, Francfort-sur-l'Oder (fr) f
• Georgian: ოდერის ფრანკფურტი (oderis pranḳpurṭi), ფრანკფურტი (pranḳpurṭi)
• German: Frankfurt an der Oder (de) n
• Greek: Φραγκφούρτη f (Fragkfoúrti)
• Hungarian: Frankfurt (hu)
• Italian: Francoforte (it) f, Francoforte sull'Oder f
• Japanese: フランクフルト (ja) (Furankufuruto)
• Macedonian: Франкфурт m (Frankfurt)
• Marathi: फ्रांक्फुर्ट n (phrāṅkphurṭa)
• Polish: Frankfurt (pl) m, Frankfurt nad Odrą (pl)
• Portuguese: Frankfurt f
• Russian: Фра́нкфурт (ru) m (Fránkfurt), Фра́нкфурт-на-О́дере (ru) m (Fránkfurt-na-Ódɛre)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Франкфурт m

  Roman: Frankfurt m

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Frankobrod m

• Spanish: Fráncfort (es) f, Fráncfort del Óder (es) f
• Ukrainian: Фра́нкфурт m (Fránkfurt), Фра́нкфурт-на-О́дері m (Fránkfurt-na-Óderi)
• Vietnamese: Phrăng-phuốc

Catalan

Etymology

From German Frankfurt.

Proper noun

Frankfurt m

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

   Synonym: Frankfurt del Main

2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

   Synonym: Frankfurt de l'Oder

Derived terms

• frankfurt
• salsitxa de Frankfurt

German

Etymology

Literally, “ford of the Franks”, from Franke and Furt (“ford”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Usage notes

• In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.

Quotations

• 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)

Derived terms

• Frankfurt am Main
• Frankfurt an der Oder
• Frankfurter
• frankfurterisch

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrɒŋkfurt]
• Rhymes: -urt
• Hyphenation: Frank‧furt

Proper noun

Frankfurt

1. Frankfurt (the largest city in Hesse, Germany)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	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

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	—

Synonyms

• Frankfurt am Main
• Majna-Frankfurt (rare)

Derived terms

• frankfurti

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/, /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/

Proper noun

Frankfurt f

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

   Synonym: Francoforte

2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Frankfurt m inan (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Swedish

Proper noun

Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)