EU

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Translingual

Symbol

EU

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

English

Alternative forms

• E.U.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌiː ˈjuː/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Proper noun

EU

1. (politics, economics) Initialism of European Union.
   • 2005, John MacDonald, Andrew Bowden, Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe, page 151:

     France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate […]

   • 2019 February 4, Emily Dixon, “The developing countries with the most to fear from Brexit”, in CNN‎:

     “The key responsibility here falls on the UK,” Hopewell said. “In order to prevent a major drop in LDC (least developed country) exports, it urgently needs to replicate the terms of the EU GSP and the EBA treaty and ensure that these arrangements are in place before the UK leaves the EU on March 29.”

   • 2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN‎:

     The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.

Coordinate terms

(European Union):

• EC
• EEC

Derived terms

• EU12
• EU15
• EU25
• EU27
• EU28
• EU English
• EU-speak
• EU-wide

Translations

European Union — see also 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 Georgian: ევროკავშირი (evroḳavširi) (the only used shortening) German: EU (de) f Greek: ΕΕ (el) (EE) Hungarian: EU (hu) Irish: AE, an tAE Italian: UE (it) Japanese: EU (ja) (Īyū) Korean: not used in Korean Latin: Ūniō Eurōpaea f 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 (uk) m (JeS) Volapük: BY Welsh: UE (cy) m

Noun

EU (uncountable)

1. (Star Wars) Abbreviation of expanded universe.

See also

• Star Wars expanded universe on Wikipedia.

Anagrams

• UE

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːˈy/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

EU f

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːˌuː/, [ˈe̞ːˌuː]
• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

EU

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

Declension

Inflection of EU (Kotus type 18/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 abessive EU:tta EU:itta instructive – EU:in comitative – EU:ineen

Derived terms

• Euvostoliitto

compounds

• EU-maa

Further reading

• “EU”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

• -ue

French

Proper noun

EU ?

1. initialism of États-Unis (= United States): a country in North America: US

Anagrams

• UE

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːˈʔuː]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (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

Noun

EU f (genitive EU, no plural)

1. initialism of Erwerbsunfähigkeit

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

Further reading

• “EU” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “EU” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu]

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

Japanese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English EU.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iːjɯ̟ː]

Proper noun

EU(イーユー) • (Īyū) 

1. EU; initialism of 欧州連合 (Ōshū rengō)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

EU m

1. EU; initialism of Den europeiske unionen

Spanish

Proper noun

EU ?

1. initialism of Estados Unidos (= United States): a country in North America: US

Swedish

Proper noun

EU c (genitive EU:s)

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

Vietnamese

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English EU.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧ ʔʊw˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: e u

Proper noun

EU

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