English
Etymology
Ultimately from Swedish Göteborg, probably via German Gothenburg (now archaic).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒθn̩bɜːɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑθn̩bɝɡ/
Proper noun
Gothenburg
- A city on the west coast of Sweden, in the province of Västergötland. It is the second-largest city in Sweden.
2025 September 16, “Can democracy survive without America?”, in The Hankyoreh[1]:This is what Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, had to say about the state of the world while speaking over the phone to the Hankyoreh on Thursday, only a few days ahead of the UN-designated International Day of Democracy on Sept. 15.
- A city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States, originally settled by Swedish people.
Derived terms
Translations
city on the west coast of Sweden
- Afrikaans: Gotenburg
- Amharic: ዬተቦርይ (yetäbory)
- Arabic: غُوتِنْبُرْغ m (ḡūtinburḡ)
- Armenian: Գյոտեբորգ (Gyoteborg)
- Azerbaijani: Göteborq
- Bulgarian: Гьотеборг m (Gjoteborg)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 哥德堡 (go1 dak1 bou2)
- Hokkien: Götebor
- Mandarin: 哥德堡 (zh) (Gēdébǎo)
- Czech: Göteborg (cs) m
- Danish: Gøteborg (da) n
- Dutch: Göteborg (nl) n, Gotenburg n
- Esperanto: Gotenburgo
- Estonian: Göteborg (et)
- Farefare: Gotemburgo
- Finnish: Göteborg (fi), (archaic) Göötepori (fi)
- French: Göteborg (fr) m, (historically) Gothembourg (fr) m
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: Goateboarch n, Goateburch n
- Galician: Gotemburgo (gl)
- Georgian: გეტებორგი (geṭeborgi)
- German: Göteborg (de) n, (archaic) Gotenburg n, Gothenburg n
- Greek: Γκέτεμποργκ n (Gkétemporgk)
- Hebrew: גוטנבורג m, גטבורג m
- Hindi: गोथनबर्ग ? (gothanbarg), गोथेनबर्ग ? (gothenbarg)
- Hungarian: Göteborg (hu)
- Icelandic: Gautaborg (is) f
- Inuktitut: ᐃᐅᑕᐳᕆ (iotapori)
- Italian: Göteborg f, (historically) Gotemburgo f
- Japanese: ヨーテボリ (Yōtebori), イェーテボリ (Yētebori), イェテボリ (Yetebori), イエテボリ (Ietebori), エーテボリ (Ētebori)
- Korean: 예테보리 (Yetebori)
- Kyrgyz: Гөтеборг (Göteborg)
- Latin: Gothenburgum n, Gothoburgum n
- Latvian: Gēteborga f
- Limburgish: Gódsbórg n, Góttebórg n, Jöttebórj n
- Lithuanian: Geteborgas m
- Macedonian: Ге́теборг m (Géteborg)
- Malayalam: യാതെബോറിയ (yātebōṟiya), ഗോഥെൻബർഗ് (gōtheṉbaṟgŭ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Gøteborg n
- Nynorsk: Gøteborg n
- Persian: گوتنبورگ (gotnborg)
- Polish: Göteborg (pl) m
- Portuguese: Gotemburgo f
- Russian: Гётебо́рг (ru) m (Gjotebórg)
- Spanish: Gotemburgo (es) m
- Swedish: Göteborg (sv) n
- Thai: กอเทนเบิร์ก (gɔɔ-teen-bə̀ək), เยอเตอบอรย์ (yəə-dtee-bɔɔ)
- Turkish: Göteborg
- Yiddish: געטעבאָרג n (geteborg)
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German
Etymology
After Swedish Göteborg, reinterpreted as Goten (“Goths”, formerly spelt Gothen) + Burg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡoːtənˌbʊrk/, /-ˌbʊrç/
Proper noun
Gothenburg n (proper noun, genitive Gothenburgs or (optionally with an article) Gothenburg)
- archaic form of Göteborg (“Gothenburg”)
Portuguese
Proper noun
Gothenburg f
- alternative form of Gotemburgo