Club

See also: club

German

Alternative forms

• Klub (used to be common for some decades, but is now becoming less frequent again)

Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klʊp/

• Audio:

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Noun

Club m (strong, genitive Clubs, plural Clubs)

1. club (association of members)
2. club (nightclub, discotheque)

Usage notes

Sense 2 is a recent secondary borrowing from English and not necessarily familiar to speakers born before 1970.

Declension

Declension of Club [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Club	die	Clubs
genitive	eines	des	Clubs	der	Clubs
dative	einem	dem	Club	den	Clubs
accusative	einen	den	Club	die	Clubs

Hypernyms

• Verein

Hyponyms

• Nachtclub (“nightclub”)
• Tanzclub (“dance club”)

Derived terms

• Clubmitglied

Descendants

• Russian: клуб (klub), клубъ (klub) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Yakut: кулууп (kuluup)
  • → Yiddish: קלוב (klub)
• Serbo-Croatian: klȗb/клу̑б

Further reading

• “Club” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Club” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Club” in Duden online
• Club on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de