Münchner

English

Etymology

From German Münchner.

Noun

Münchner (plural Münchners)

1. A native or inhabitant of Munich.

   Synonym: Munichite

   • 1916, Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page 14:

     […] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to which Münchners 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, page 422:

     “Zu streng” was the comment of the Münchners, 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, volume 116, page 603:

     […] a thousand heathenish Münchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine.

   • 1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60:

     There followed a great commotion and uprising, the Münchners 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, page 174:

     They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster.

   • 1933, House & Garden, volume 64, page 25:

     Whenever in Munich you admire the way the Münchners 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, page 228:

     THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL

   • 2005, William Bridges, Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 12:

     I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full of Münchners.

   • 2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:

     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 with Münchners, is a delight. In fact, most Münchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats.

German

Alternative forms

• Münchener

Etymology

München +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʏnçnɐ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Münch‧ner

Noun

Münchner m (strong, genitive Münchners, plural Münchner, feminine Münchnerin)

1. a resident or inhabitant of Munich

Declension

Declension of Münchner [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Münchner	die	Münchner
genitive	eines	des	Münchners	der	Münchner
dative	einem	dem	Münchner	den	Münchnern
accusative	einen	den	Münchner	die	Münchner

Adjective

Münchner (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Munich

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Derived terms

• münchnerisch

Further reading

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