Hamburger

See also: hamburger

English

Etymology

From Hamburg +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɜːɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmbɝɡɚ/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

Hamburger (plural Hamburgers)

1. A person from Hamburg.

Translations

A person from Hamburg

• Asturian: hamburgués (ast), hamburguesa (ast)
• Catalan: hamburguès (ca) m, hamburguesa (ca) f

  Valencian: hamburgués (ca) m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢かん堡人／汉堡人じん

• Czech: Hamburčan (cs) m
• Dutch: Hamburger (nl) m, Hamburgse (nl) f
• Esperanto: hamburgano
• Estonian: hamburglane
• Finnish: hampurilainen (fi)
• French: Hambourgeois (fr) m, Hambourgeoise (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰამბურგელი (hamburgeli)
• German: Hamburger (de) m, Hamburgerin (de) f
• Hungarian: hamburgi (hu)
• Italian: amburghese (it)
• Japanese: ハンブルク人じん (hanburuku jin)
• Macedonian: хамбурговец m (hamburgovec)
• Norwegian: hamburger
• Occitan: amborgés
• Polish: hamburczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: hamburguês m, hamburguesa f
• Russian: гамбуржанин m (gamburžanin), гамбуржец (ru) m (gamburžec)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хамбургжанин m

  Roman: hamburgžanin m

• Spanish: hamburgués (es) m, hamburguesa (es) f
• Swedish: hamburgerbo
• Turkish: Hamburglu

German

Etymology 1

Hamburg +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɐ/

• Audio:

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Adjective

Hamburger (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Hamburg

Noun

Hamburger m (strong, genitive Hamburgers, plural Hamburger, feminine Hamburgerin)

1. Hamburger (person)

Declension

Declension of Hamburger [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Hamburger	die	Hamburger
genitive	eines	des	Hamburgers	der	Hamburger
dative	einem	dem	Hamburger	den	Hamburgern
accusative	einen	den	Hamburger	die	Hamburger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hamburger, perhaps from German Hamburger (“of the city Hamburg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɐ/, (less common) /ˈhɛmˌbœʁɡɐ/

• Audio:

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Noun

Hamburger m (strong, genitive Hamburgers, plural Hamburger)

1. hamburger (food)

Declension

Declension of Hamburger [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Hamburger	die	Hamburger
genitive	eines	des	Hamburgers	der	Hamburger
dative	einem	dem	Hamburger	den	Hamburgern
accusative	einen	den	Hamburger	die	Hamburger

Related terms

• Burger

Further reading

• “Hamburger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hamburger (Einwohner)” in Duden online
• “Hamburger (Speise)” in Duden online