Gulden

See also: gulden and gülden

German

Etymology

From Middle High German guldīn, gulden (“gold coin”, literally “golden”), from such forms as gulden pfenninc (“golden penny”), but especially from the gulden florīn (“golden florin”), a gold coin from Florence, which became popular in Germanic-speaking Europe since the late Middle Ages. Gulden was the predominant High German word for “golden”, though it was later supplanted by the variant forms gülden and eventually golden. The modern use of the noun in part after Dutch gulden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊldən/, [ˈɡʊldən], [ˈɡʊldn̩]

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Noun

Gulden m (strong, genitive Guldens, plural Gulden)

1. (finance, now chiefly history) guilder (currency of the Netherlands until 2001)
2. (history) florin; guilder (mediaeval and early modern coin)

Declension

Declension of Gulden [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Gulden	die	Gulden
genitive	eines	des	Guldens	der	Gulden
dative	einem	dem	Gulden	den	Gulden
accusative	einen	den	Gulden	die	Gulden

Further reading

• “Gulden” in Duden online
• “Gulden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache