volapük
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
volapük
- Volapük (language)
Declension
| Inflection of volapük (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | volapük | — | |
| genitive | volapükin | — | |
| partitive | volapükiä | — | |
| illative | volapükiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | volapük | — | |
| accusative | nom. | volapük | — |
| gen. | volapükin | ||
| genitive | volapükin | — | |
| partitive | volapükiä | — | |
| inessive | volapükissä | — | |
| elative | volapükistä | — | |
| illative | volapükiin | — | |
| adessive | volapükillä | — | |
| ablative | volapükiltä | — | |
| allative | volapükille | — | |
| essive | volapükinä | — | |
| translative | volapükiksi | — | |
| abessive | volapükittä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
volapük m (uncountable)
- Volapük (language)
Further reading
- “volapük”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Noun
volapük m (invariable)
- Volapük (language)
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Volapük Volapük.
Pronunciation
Noun
volapük m inan
- Volapük (artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer)
- (figurative) gibberish, gobbledygook, double Dutch (incomprehensible and confusing language or style)
Declension
Declension of volapük
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | volapük |
| genitive | volapüku |
| dative | volapükowi |
| accusative | volapük |
| instrumental | volapükiem |
| locative | volapüku |
| vocative | volapüku |
Further reading
Portuguese
Noun
volapük m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of volapuque
Volapük
Etymology
From vola (“of the world / world's”) + pük (“language”). More at Volapük.
Pronunciation
Noun
volapük (nominative plural volapüks)
- universal language
- (most literal) world language; global language
- Linglänapük e Fransänapük binons volapüks.
- English and French are world languages.
- (sometimes lowercase) Volapük