Bundesliga

English

Proper noun

Bundesliga

1. (soccer) The German Football Bundesliga (the highest division of professional men's football in Germany)
2. (soccer) The Austrian Football Bundesliga (the highest division of professional men's football in Austria)

Anagrams

• subleading

German

Alternative forms

• Buli (informal short form)

Etymology

From Bund (“federation”) +‎ -es- +‎ Liga (“league”), thus “federal league”, in the sense of “nationwide league”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bun‧des‧li‧ga

Noun

Bundesliga f (genitive Bundesliga, plural Bundesligen)

1. (sports, Germany, Austria) A league in which clubs from the entire country participate.

   Hyponym: Fußballbundesliga

   Diese Sportart hat so wenig Aktive, dass man eine Bundesliga gründen musste, weil es für mehrere regionale Ligen gar nicht genug Vereine gibt.

   This sport has so few active participants that a nationwide league had to be established, because there are not enough clubs for several regional leagues.

Usage notes

• The word is restricted neither to football nor to the very highest league of a given sport. It is, however, used only of Germany and Austria (countries which can be described with Bund); the Swiss equivalent is Nationalliga. Bundesliga is part of the official names of many leagues, but it can also be used of any nationwide league in the two countries regardless of its official name.
• When used without any specification or context, Bundesliga generally refers to the highest (association) football league of the respective country. This is due to the fact that football is by far the most popular sport, not to a property of the word as such.

Declension

Declension of Bundesliga [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Bundesliga	die	Bundesligen
genitive	einer	der	Bundesliga	der	Bundesligen
dative	einer	der	Bundesliga	den	Bundesligen
accusative	eine	die	Bundesliga	die	Bundesligen

Derived terms

• Fußballbundesliga

Further reading

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