Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

A resident/inhabitant of Prague

English answer:

Praguer

Added to glossary by Rafal Piotrowski
Oct 3, 2010 11:58
13 yrs ago
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English term

A resident/inhabitant of Prague

English Other Geography City resident's names
Hello @ll,

At the conference in Prague that I am currently attending, an important question emerged:

WHAT do you actually call people who live in Prague?

Pragers? Pragese? Pragsters (I like this suggesion best ;-))?

6 native speakers interviewed had no clue - neither did Pavel, the organiser, who is a Prag-??? himself.

A reply will be especially appreciated if it arrives today, before 5 p.m. + 1 GMT.

A reference is most welcome.

TIA,

Rafal

Discussion

Jim Tucker (X) Oct 5, 2010:
"Budapesters" ... is perfectly fine.

Signed,
A Budapester
BrigitteHilgner Oct 3, 2010:
Prager -> Praguer? To be honest, I don't know the right term, but the comment about Mozart makes me wonder: The German word for a person living in Prague ("Prag" in German) is "Prager" - is the English language following the German or vice versa?

Responses

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Praguer

At least this is what I managed to find.
Example sentence:

Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, “My Praguers understand me.”

Peer comment(s):

agree Rolf Keiser : as New Yorker, but Chicagoan
7 mins
Thanks.
agree Maria Chmelarova : pražan, pražané - Praguer(s)
21 mins
Thank you.
agree Dylan Edwards : Thanks for the Mozart quote!
26 mins
You're welcome. :)
agree Stephanie Ezrol
36 mins
Thanks.
agree Jenni Lukac (X)
1 hr
Thank you.
agree Jim Tucker (X)
3 hrs
Thank you, Jim.
agree Deborah Workman : Praguer is on this list of demonyms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectivals_and_demonyms_for_ci...
12 hrs
Thanks you for the link.
agree orientalhorizon
1 day 3 hrs
Thank you.
agree Colin Ryan (X) : Very Prague-matic answer!
1 day 23 hrs
LOL Nice pun. Thanks.
disagree Charlesp : And in Budapest Budapesters?
2 days 4 hrs
It actually came as a surprise to me as well but it appears so - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectivals_and_demonyms_for_ci... , http://www.paulsquiz.com/Trivia_Quiz_Resources/Geography/Lis... I'll have to look into it more
agree Phong Le
2 days 18 hrs
Thank you.
agree Anna Herbst : http://claire-thepragueblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-want...
3 days 12 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you on behalf of PRAGUE PROZ CONFERENCE particpants :-)"
10 mins

Praguese

Peer comment(s):

neutral Jim Tucker (X) : Would work if this were a language or a nationality. // Fair enough, maybe it's the "n" or the French precedent that makes "Viennese" work.
3 hrs
I based it on Viennese :-)
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7 mins

Praguean

:)

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Note added at 11 mins (2010-10-03 12:10:17 GMT)
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joking, but i suggest the option " residents" IN Preague

hth
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16 mins

the inhabitant of Prague

1881: The National Theatre is destroyed in a fire, the inhabitants of Prague collect money for its re-construction. 1883: Re-opening of the National Theatre ...
www.prague.net/history -
Peer comment(s):

agree British Diana
7 hrs
thanks
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4 hrs

Prague citizens

.
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2 days 4 hrs

Praguista

Could be Praguista.
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Reference comments

35 mins
Reference:

"If you could please answer this question, it would surely settle a huge debate:
In English, people from Paris are Parisians. People from Rome are Romans. What do you call people from Prague?"
Although neither dictionaries nor the spell check on my computer recognise it, one can come across the word "Praguers", especially among the expat community in Prague. In Czech the word is Prazan - or Prazak in colloquial speech - so it would make sense to have a short, one-word term in English, too. On Radio Prague we usually refer to them as Prague citizens. But we'd like to know what you, the listeners, think about the terms - which one do you prefer? Please, let us know...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/67571


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Note added at 57 mins (2010-10-03 12:55:30 GMT)
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Of course, it doesn't sound as familiar to most English-speakers as "Berliner" or "Parisian", but "Praguer" is the word that you typically see, for example, in guide books to Prague:

"So all those fancy restaurants and stylish bars are out of reach of the majority of Praguers, their custom confined to expats, gangsters, ...".
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