IKEA

See also: Ikea

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Swedish IKEA.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪˈkiːə/, /ɪˈkeɪ.ə/, /ˈaɪˌki.ə/
  • (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ɪˈki.a/, /i-/

Proper noun

IKEA

  1. An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer.
    • 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 126:
      Instruct the servant robot to clean the house, landscape the yard, and assemble several major pieces of IKEA furniture. Then, when your robot is power depleted and attempts to recharge, shut off the power to your house.
    • 2008 February 2, Luke Burbank, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
      It seems Swedish gangs, apparently no longer satisfied with knocking over their local IKEA’s, have taken to sneaking little people into the cargo holds of the buses by stowing them in suitcases.

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Swedish IKEA.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈikeːjɒ]

Proper noun

IKEA

  1. IKEA

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative IKEA
accusative IKEA-t
dative IKEA-nak
instrumental IKEA-val
causal-final IKEA-ért
translative IKEA-vá
terminative IKEA-ig
essive-formal IKEA-ként
essive-modal
inessive IKEA-ban
superessive IKEA-n
adessive IKEA-nál
illative IKEA-ba
sublative IKEA-ra
allative IKEA-hoz
elative IKEA-ból
delative IKEA-ról
ablative IKEA-tól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
IKEA-é
non-attributive
possessive - plural
IKEA-éi
Possessive forms of IKEA
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. IKEA-m
2nd person sing. IKEA-d
3rd person sing. IKEA-ja
1st person plural IKEA-nk
2nd person plural IKEA-tok
3rd person plural IKEA-juk

Swedish

Etymology

The initials of the founder's name, Ingvar Kamprad, of his home village Elmtaryd (now spelled Älmtaryd), and of the nearby village Agunnaryd

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɪˈkêːa/

Proper noun

IKEA n (genitive IKEAs)

  1. IKEA
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