Volleyball

See also: volleyball and volley-ball

German

Volleyball

Etymology

Borrowed from English volleyball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔliˌbal/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. (sports, uncountable) volleyball (game)
2. (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