Vampir

See also: vampir and vámpír

German

Alternative forms

• Vampyr (dated)

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian vampir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vamˈpiːɐ̯/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Vampir m (strong, genitive Vampires or Vampirs, plural Vampire, feminine Vampirin)

1. vampire

Declension

Declension of Vampir [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Vampir	die	Vampire
genitive	eines	des	Vampires, Vampirs	der	Vampire
dative	einem	dem	Vampir, Vampire1	den	Vampiren
accusative	einen	den	Vampir	die	Vampire

¹Now rare, see notes.

Descendants

• → Danish: vampyr (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: vampier (see there for further descendants)
• → Estonian: vampiir
• → French: vampire (see there for further descendants)
• → Hungarian: vámpír
• → Latvian: vampīrs
• → Lithuanian: vampyras
• → Luxembourgish: Vampir
• → Norwegian: vampyr
• → Swedish: vampyr
• → West Frisian: fampier
• → Yiddish: וואַמפּיר (vampir)

Further reading

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