Jahn

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjaɦn̩]

Proper noun

Jahn m anim (female equivalent Jahnová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Jahn (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Jahn	Jahnové
genitive	Jahna	Jahnů
dative	Jahnovi	Jahnům
accusative	Jahna	Jahny
vocative	Jahne	Jahnové
locative	Jahnovi	Jahnech
instrumental	Jahnem	Jahny

German

Etymology

Reduced from Johannes; as an Eastern German surname, also from Czech Jan, itself related to the former.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Jahn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Jahns or (with an article) Jahn, feminine genitive Jahn, plural Jahns)

1. a surname

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Jahn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240.