ドイツ連邦共和国

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連	邦	共	和	国
れん Grade: 4	ほう > ぽう Grade: S	きょう Grade: 4	わ Grade: 3	こく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of ドイツ (Doitsu, “Germany, German”) +‎ 連邦 (renpō, “federation, federated”) +‎ 共和国 (kyōwakoku, “republic”), a calque of German Bundesrepublik Deutschland (“Federal Republic of Germany”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [do̞it͡sɨᵝ ɾẽ̞mpo̞ː kʲo̞ːɰᵝa̠ko̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Proper noun

ドイツ連邦共和国 (hiragana and katakana ドイツれんぽうきょうわこく, rōmaji Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku)

the Federal Republic of Germany: the former West Germany from 1949 through 1990
the Federal Republic of Germany: Germany as a whole after the reunification of East Germany and West Germany in 1990

Synonyms

(West Germany): 西 (にし)ドイツ (Nishi Doitsu), 西 (せい)独 (どく) (Seidoku)
(Germany): ドイツ (Doitsu) (common), ジャーマニー (Jāmanī) (uncommon, informal)

References

↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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