Aachener

Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen +‎ -er.

Aachener (plural Aacheners)

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
   • 1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, →ISBN, page 24:

     Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːxənɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Aa‧che‧ner

Aachener m (strong, genitive Aacheners, plural Aachener, feminine Aachenerin)

1. Aachener (native or inhabitant of the city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (usually male)

Aachener (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. of, from or relating to the city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

• “Aachener” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aachener” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Aachener” in Duden online
• “Aachener” in Duden online