Vampir

See also: vampir and vámpír

German

Alternative forms

Vampyr (dated)

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian vampir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vamˈpiːɐ̯/
Audio (file)

Noun

Vampir m (strong, genitive Vampires or Vampirs, plural Vampire, feminine Vampirin)

vampire

Declension

Declension of Vampir [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Vampir	die	Vampire
genitive	eines	des	Vampires, Vampirs	der	Vampire
dative	einem	dem	Vampir, Vampire¹	den	Vampiren
accusative	einen	den	Vampir	die	Vampire

¹Now rare, see notes.

Descendants

→ Danish: vampyr (see there for further descendants)
→ Dutch: vampier (see there for further descendants)
→ Estonian: vampiir
→ French: vampire (see there for further descendants)
→ Hungarian: vámpír
→ Latvian: vampīrs
→ Lithuanian: vampyras
→ Luxembourgish: Vampir
→ Norwegian: vampyr
→ Swedish: vampyr
→ West Frisian: fampier
→ Yiddish: וואַמפּיר (vampir)

Further reading

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

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