Volkswagen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Volkswagen, from Volks (“people's, folk’s”) + Wagen (“car, vehicle”).

Proper noun

Volkswagen

1. A German car manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg.

Noun

Volkswagen (plural Volkswagens)

1. A car manufactured by Volkswagen.

Translations

a car manufacturer, a car manufactured by Volkswagen (transliterations)

• Arabic: فولكس واجن‎ m (fulkswāgin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大眾 (zh), 大众 (zh) (dàzhòng)

• Faroese: fólkavognur m
• Finnish: Volkswagen, volkkari (colloquial)
• German: Volkswagen (de) m

• Japanese: フォルクスワーゲン (Forukusuwāgen)
• Korean: 폭스바겐 (Pokseubagen)
• Russian: Фольксва́ген m (Folʹksvágen)
• Swedish: folkvagn (sv) c
• Uyghur: ۋولكسۋاگېن‎ (wolkswagën)

See also

• Beetle

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Finnish

Proper noun

Volkswagen

1. Volkswagen (German car manufacturer or a car made by it)

Declension

Inflection of Volkswagen (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Volkswagen	Volkswagenit
genitive		Volkswagenin	Volkswagenien Volkswageneiden Volkswageneitten
partitive		Volkswagenia	Volkswageneita Volkswageneja
illative		Volkswageniin	Volkswageneihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Volkswagen	Volkswagenit
accusative	nom.	Volkswagen	Volkswagenit
	gen.	Volkswagenin
genitive		Volkswagenin	Volkswagenien Volkswageneiden Volkswageneitten
partitive		Volkswagenia	Volkswageneita Volkswageneja
inessive		Volkswagenissa	Volkswageneissa
elative		Volkswagenista	Volkswageneista
illative		Volkswageniin	Volkswageneihin
adessive		Volkswagenilla	Volkswageneilla
ablative		Volkswagenilta	Volkswageneilta
allative		Volkswagenille	Volkswageneille
essive		Volkswagenina	Volkswageneina
translative		Volkswageniksi	Volkswageneiksi
instructive		—	Volkswagenein
abessive		Volkswagenitta	Volkswageneitta
comitative		—	Volkswageneineen

Possessive forms of Volkswagen (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Volkswagenini	Volkswagenimme
2nd person	Volkswagenisi	Volkswageninne
3rd person	Volkswageninsa

Synonyms

• (car): volkkari, folkkari

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German

Etymology

From Volk (“people, folk”) +‎ -s- +‎ Wagen (“car”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Volkswagen m (genitive Volkswagens)

1. A German car manufacturer.

Noun

Volkswagen m (genitive Volkswagens, plural Volkswagen)

1. A car made by the German car manufacturer.

   Ich fahre einen Volkswagen.

   I drive a Volkswagen.

Declension

Declension of Volkswagen

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Volkswagen	die	Volkswagen
genitive	eines	des	Volkswagens	der	Volkswagen
dative	einem	dem	Volkswagen	den	Volkswagen
accusative	einen	den	Volkswagen	die	Volkswagen

Synonyms

• Abbreviation: VW

Further reading

• “Volkswagen” in Duden online