EU

EU

See also: eu, Eu, .e'u, eu-, -eu, .eu, eü, and Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Translingual

Symbol

EU

1. (international standards) Exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for European Union.

Usage notes

This is an exceptionally reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of ISO 4217 for the purpose of being used in the International Securities Identification Number system, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO outside of that purpose.

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English

Alternative forms

• E.U.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌiː ˈjuː/

• Audio (CA)

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Proper noun

EU

1. (politics, economics) Initialism of European Union.

Coordinate terms

(European Union):

• EC
• EEC

Derived terms

• anti-EU
• EU-funded
• EU-related

 

Translations

European Union — See also translations at European Union,‎ EUSSR

Arabic: not used in Arabic Armenian: ԵՄ (hy) (EM) Belarusian: ЕС m (JeS), ЭЗ m (EZ) (Taraškievica), ЕЗ m (JeZ) (Taraškievica) Catalan: UE (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 歐盟／欧盟 (zh) (Ōuméng) Crimean Tatar: AB Czech: EU (cs) f Danish: EU (da) n Dutch: EU (nl) f Estonian: EL (et) Faroese: ES n Finnish: EU (fi) French: UE (fr) f Galician: UE (gl) f German: EU (de) f Greek: ΕΕ (el) (EE) Irish: AE, an tAE Italian: UE (it) Japanese: not used in Japanese Korean: not used in Korean Latvian: ES f Luxembourgish: EU f Macedonian: ЕУ (mk) f (EU) Maltese: UE Mongolian: EН (EN) Norwegian: EU (no) m Persian: not used in Persian Portuguese: UE (pt) f Romanian: UE Russian: ЕС (ru) m (JeS) Scottish Gaelic: AE m Sicilian: UE f Slovak: EÚ (sk) n Spanish: UE (es) f Swedish: EU (sv) c Thai: อียู (th) (ii-yuu) Turkish: AB (tr) Ukrainian: ЄС m (JeS) Volapük: BY

Noun

EU (uncountable)

1. (Star Wars) Abbreviation of expanded universe.

See also

• Star Wars expanded universe on Wikipedia.

Anagrams

• UE

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːˈy/

• Audio

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Proper noun

EU f

1. EU; initialism of Europese Unie (“European Union”)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːˌuː/, [ˈe̞ːˌuː]

Proper noun

EU

1. EU; initialism of Euroopan unioni (“European Union”)

Declension

Declension of EU (type maa) singular plural nominative EU EU:t genitive EU:n EU:iden EU:itten partitive EU:ta EU:ita accusative EU EU:n EU:t inessive EU:ssa EU:issa elative EU:sta EU:ista illative EU:hun EU:ihin adessive EU:lla EU:illa ablative EU:lta EU:ilta allative EU:lle EU:ille essive EU:na EU:ina translative EU:ksi EU:iksi instructive – EU:in abessive EU:tta EU:itta comitative – EU:ineen

Anagrams

• -ue

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French

Proper noun

EU ?

1. US (a country in North America); initialism of États-Unis (“United States”)

Anagrams

• UE

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːˈʔuː]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

EU f (proper noun, genitive EU)

1. EU; initialism of Europäische Union (“European Union”)

Declension

Declension of EU [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	EU
genitive	einer	der	EU
dative	einer	der	EU
accusative	eine	die	EU

Derived terms

• EUdSSR

Further reading

• “EU” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -u

Proper noun

EU

1. EU; initialism of Európai Unió (“European Union”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	EU	—
accusative	EU-t	—
dative	EU-nak	—
instrumental	EU-val	—
causal-final	EU-ért	—
translative	EU-vá	—
terminative	EU-ig	—
essive-formal	EU-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	EU-ban	—
superessive	EU-n	—
adessive	EU-nál	—
illative	EU-ba	—
sublative	EU-ra	—
allative	EU-hoz	—
elative	EU-ból	—
delative	EU-ról	—
ablative	EU-tól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	EU-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	EU-éi	—

Derived terms

• EU-csatlakozás
• EU-s

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

EU m

1. EU; initialism of Den europeiske unionen

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Spanish

Proper noun

EU

1. US (a country in North America); initialism of Estados Unidos (“United States”)

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Swedish

Proper noun

EU c (genitive EU:s)

1. EU; initialism of Europeiska unionen (“European Union”)

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English EU.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
• Phonetic: e u

Proper noun

EU

1. Synonym of Liên minh châu Âu (“European Union”)