Volk
German noun meaning "people" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about English-language usage of a German word. For people with the surname, see Volk (surname). For English word for populace, see Folk. For other uses, see Volk (disambiguation).
The German noun Volk (German pronunciation: [fɔlk]) translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural Völker) in the sense of a people as in an ethnic group or nation (compare the English term folk).
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Within an English-language context, the German word is of interest primarily for its use in German philosophy, as in Volksseele ("national soul"), and in German nationalism – notably the derived adjective völkisch ("national, ethnic").