Vilnius

English

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius, after the Vilnia River, from vilnis (“wave”).

Vilnius

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. The capital of Lithuania.

Translations

capital of Lithuania

• Afrikaans: Vilnius
• Arabic: فِيلْنْيُوس m (filnyūs)
• Armenian: Վիլնյուս (Vilnyus)
• Belarusian: Ві́льнюс m (Vílʹnjus), (dated) Ві́льня f (Vílʹnja)
• Bengali: ভিলনিউস (bhilonius)
• Bulgarian: Ви́лнюс m (Vílnjus)
• Catalan: Vílnius
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維爾紐斯／维尔纽斯 (zh) (Wéi'ěrniǔsī), 维尔纽斯 (zh) (Wéi'ěrniǔsī)

• Czech: Vilnius (cs) m
• Danish: Vilnius (da)
• Dutch: Vilnius n
• Esperanto: Vilno (eo)
• Estonian: Vilnius (et)
• Faroese: Vilnius m
• Finnish: Vilna (fi)
• French: Vilnius (fr)
• Georgian: ვილნიუსი (ka) (vilniusi)
• German: Vilnius (de) n, Wilna (de) n
• Greek: Βίλνιους (el) f (Vílnious)
• Hebrew: וִילְנָה f (vílna)
• Hindi: विल्नुस (vilnus)
• Hungarian: Vilnius (hu)
• Irish: Vilnias m
• Italian: Vilnius m, Vilna f
• Japanese: ビリニュス (ja) (Birinyusu)
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• Kashubian: Wilno n
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 빌뉴스 (Billyuseu)
• Latvian: Viļņa
• Lithuanian: Vilnius (lt)
• Macedonian: Вилнус m (Vilnus)
• Maltese: Vilnjus
• Navajo: Bílnios
• Persian: ویلنیوس
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Vilnius
• Polish: Wilno (pl) n
• Portuguese: Vilna f, Vilnius (pt)
• Russian: Ви́льнюс (ru) m (Vílʹnjus), (dated) Ви́льна f (Vílʹna), (dated) Ви́льно (ru) n (Vílʹno)
• Rusyn: Вільно (Vilʹno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Виљњус m

  Roman: Vilnius m

• Slovak: Vilnius m
• Slovene: Vilna f
• Spanish: Vilna (es)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: วิลนีอุส (winneeùt)
• Turkish: Vilnüs
• Ukrainian: Ві́льнюс m (Vílʹnjus), Ві́льно n (Vílʹno), (dated) Ві́льна f (Vílʹna)
• Yiddish: ווילנע (vilne)

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Czech

Proper noun

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

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Danish

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

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Dutch

Proper noun

Vilnius n

1. Vilnius

Synonyms

• Wilnioes (obsolete)

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Estonian

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

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Faroese

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vilnius.

Proper noun

Vilnius m

1. Vilnius

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Vilnius
Accusative	Vilnius
Dative	Vilniusi
Genitive	Vilnius

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vil.njys/

Proper noun

Vilnius ?

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Vilnius n

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvilnijus]
• Hyphenation: Vil‧ni‧us

Proper noun

Vilnius

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Vilnius	—
accusative	Vilniust	—
dative	Vilniusnak	—
instrumental	Vilniusszal	—
causal-final	Vilniusért	—
translative	Vilniusszá	—
terminative	Vilniusig	—
essive-formal	Vilniusként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Vilniusban	—
superessive	Vilniuson	—
adessive	Vilniusnál	—
illative	Vilniusba	—
sublative	Vilniusra	—
allative	Vilniushoz	—
elative	Vilniusból	—
delative	Vilniusról	—
ablative	Vilniustól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Vilniusé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Vilniuséi	—

Possessive forms of Vilnius
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Vilniusom	—
2nd person sing.	Vilniusod	—
3rd person sing.	Vilniusa	—
1st person plural	Vilniusunk	—
2nd person plural	Vilniusotok	—
3rd person plural	Vilniusuk	—

Derived terms

• vilniusi

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Italian

Proper noun

Vilnius ?

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

Synonyms

• Vilna

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs]

Proper noun

Vìlnius m stress pattern 1

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)

Declension

    Declension of Vìlnius

nominative	Vìlnius
genitive	Vìlniaus
dative	Vìlniui
accusative	Vìlnių
instrumental	Vìlniumi
locative	Vìlniuje
vocative	Vìlniau

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Vilnius f

1. Vilnius (the capital city of Lithuania)

Synonyms

• Vilna

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Slovak

Etymology

From Lithuanian Vìlnius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɫɲi̯us/

Proper noun

Vilnius m (genitive singular Vilniusu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Vilnius

Declension

Declension of Vilnius

	singular
nominative	Vilnius
genitive	Vilniusu
dative	Vilniusu
accusative	Vilnius
locative	Vilniuse
instrumental	Vilniusom

Derived terms

• Vilniusan
• Vilniusanka
• vilniusky

Further reading

• “Vilnius”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Swedish

Proper noun

Vilnius n (genitive Vilnius)

1. Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania)