# EU
## Translingual
### Symbol

EU
* (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: /ˌiː ˈjuː/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Proper noun

EU
* (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 […]
** 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

* EU English
* EU-speak

#### Translations
### Noun

EU (uncountable)
* (Star Wars) Abbreviation of expanded universe.

#### See also

* Star Wars expanded universe on Wikipedia.

### Anagrams

* UE

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eːˈy/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

EU f
* EU; initialism of Europese Unie (“European Union”)

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeːˌuː/, [ˈe̞ːˌuː]
* Rhymes: -uː

### Proper noun

EU
* 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
* 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 2023-07-02

### Anagrams

* -ue

## French
### Proper noun

EU ?
* US (a country in North America); initialism of États-Unis (“United States”)

### Anagrams

* UE

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [eːˈʔuː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uː

### Proper noun

EU f (proper noun, genitive EU)
* EU; initialism of Europäische Union (“European Union”)

#### Derived terms

* EUdSSR

### Noun

EU f (genitive EU, no plural)
* initialism of Erwerbsunfähigkeit

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛu]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u

### Proper noun

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

#### Derived terms

* EU-csatlakozás
* EU-s

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Proper noun

EU m
* EU; initialism of Den europeiske unionen

## Spanish
### Proper noun

EU ?
* US (a country in North America); initialism of Estados Unidos (“United States”)

## Swedish
### Proper noun

EU c (genitive EU:s)
* EU; initialism of Europeiska unionen (“European Union”)

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English EU.

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

EU
* Synonym of Liên minh châu Âu (“European Union”)