Volleyball

See also: volleyball and volley-ball

German

Volleyball

Etymology

Borrowed from English volleyball.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɔliˌbal/
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Noun

Volleyball m (strong, genitive Volleyballes or Volleyballs, plural Volleybälle)

(sports, uncountable) volleyball (game)
(sports, countable) volleyball (ball)

Declension

Declension of Volleyball [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Volleyball	die	Volleybälle
genitive	eines	des	Volleyballes, Volleyballs	der	Volleybälle
dative	einem	dem	Volleyball, Volleyballe¹	den	Volleybällen
accusative	einen	den	Volleyball	die	Volleybälle

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

Beachvolleyball

Further reading

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

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