Hannover
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English
Proper noun
Hannover
- Alternative spelling of Hanover
Anagrams
Catalan
Proper noun
Hannover ?
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑno(ː)ʋer/,
- IPA(key): /ˈhɑnːo(ː)ʋer/,
- Rhymes: -ɑnːoʋer
- Syllabification(key): Han‧no‧ver
Proper noun
Hannover
- Hanover (German city)
Declension
| Inflection of Hannover (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Hannover | — | |
| genitive | Hannoverin | — | |
| partitive | Hannoveria | — | |
| illative | Hannoveriin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Hannover | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Hannover | — |
| gen. | Hannoverin | ||
| genitive | Hannoverin | — | |
| partitive | Hannoveria | — | |
| inessive | Hannoverissa | — | |
| elative | Hannoverista | — | |
| illative | Hannoveriin | — | |
| adessive | Hannoverilla | — | |
| ablative | Hannoverilta | — | |
| allative | Hannoverille | — | |
| essive | Hannoverina | — | |
| translative | Hannoveriksi | — | |
| abessive | Hannoveritta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
German
Etymology
From Middle Low German, from underlying an/up den hôen ôver (“on the high shore/bank”). Note that the area of central Hannover now called Am Hohen Ufer was banked up later and is not the at the origin of the city's name; it may rather have been called thus after the latter.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hannover n (proper noun, genitive Hannovers or (optionally with an article) Hannover)
- The capital and largest city of Lower Saxony, Germany
- A special district (Kommunalverband besonderer Art) of Lower Saxony; full name Region Hannover
- A former province of Prussia, in modern Germany
- A former kingdom in the German Confederation