Frankenberger
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Frankenberger.
Proper noun
Frankenberger (plural Frankenbergers)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Frankenberger is the 36154th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 620 individuals. Frankenberger is most common among White (95.0%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Frankenberger”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 598.
German
Etymology
From Frankenberg + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfʁaŋkn̩ˌbɛɐ̯ɡɐ]
- Hyphenation: Fran‧ken‧ber‧ger
Noun
Frankenberger m (strong, genitive Frankenbergers, plural Frankenberger, feminine Frankenbergerin)
- A native or resident of Frankenberg
Declension
Declension of Frankenberger [masculine, strong]
Hypernyms
Adjective
Frankenberger (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Frankenberg
Usage notes
- 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.
Proper noun
Frankenberger m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Frankenbergers or (with an article) Frankenberger, feminine genitive Frankenberger, plural Frankenbergers or Frankenberger)
- a surname
Declension
Declension of Frankenberger [masculine // feminine, surname]
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | |||||||
| indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | (ein) | (der) | Frankenberger | (eine) | (die) | Frankenberger | (die) | Frankenbergers, Frankenberger |
| genitive | (eines) | (des) | Frankenbergers, Frankenberger1 | (einer) | (der) | Frankenberger | (der) | Frankenbergers, Frankenberger |
| dative | (einem) | (dem) | Frankenberger | (einer) | (der) | Frankenberger | (den) | Frankenbergers, Frankenberger |
| accusative | (einen) | (den) | Frankenberger | (eine) | (die) | Frankenberger | (die) | Frankenbergers, Frankenberger |
1With an article.