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Münchner (pluralMünchners)
- Anative orinhabitant of the city ofMunich,capital ofBavaria,Germany.
- Synonym:Munichite
1916,Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page14:[…] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to whichMünchners without families resorted for their meals.
1922,Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe,Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, volume III, Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, page422:“Zu streng” was the comment of theMünchners, and doubly strenuous it was for an American boy, quite ignorant of German, and held, from the moment of his entrance, responsible for obeying all the elaborate regulations of the school.
1928,The Century Monthly Magazine, volume116, page603:[…] a thousand heathenishMünchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine.
1929,World Traveler, volume21, page60:There followed a great commotion and uprising, theMünchners saying that their beer was absolutely necessary to them and that nothing dare be done to make it more difficult of attainment.
1931, Henry Albert Phillips,Meet the Germans: In Which an American Sees the New Germany Through Its People,Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page174:They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster.
1933,House & Garden, volume64, page25:Whenever in Munich you admire the way theMünchners decorate their houses and lampstands with flower boxes, think kindly and proudly of Count Rumford.
1936,German Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Schurz, Carl, National Association, page228:THE PRACTICALMÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL
2005, William Bridges,Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc.,→ISBN, page12:I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full ofMünchners.
2005, Larry Hawthorne,The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers,→ISBN, page209:The Starkbierzeit is celebrated by most Munich beer halls.Münchners refer to it as the city's "fifth season."
2016,Rick Steves,Best of Germany, Avalon Travel,Perseus Books,→ISBN:Augustiner Beer Garden, a true under-the-leaves beer garden packed withMünchners, is a delight. In fact, mostMünchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats.
München +-er
- IPA(key): [ˈmʏnçnɐ]
- Hyphenation:Münch‧ner
Münchner m (strong,genitiveMünchners,pluralMünchner,feminineMünchnerin)
- a resident or inhabitant ofMunich
Declension ofMünchner [masculine, strong]
Münchner (indeclinable,no predicative form)
- (relational) ofMunich
- Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted byDuden,DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See-er for more.