café
English
Alternative forms
Noun
café (plural cafés)
- A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
- A French pub.
- (Canada) a small restaurant of any genre
- "Chinese Cafe" by Joni Mitchell, 1982
Synonyms
- (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop
- (French pub): see Thesaurus:pub
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
coffee shop
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French pub
Danish
Declension
Declension of café
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | café | caféen | caféer | caféerne |
genitive | cafés | caféens | caféers | caféernes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eː
Noun
café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)
- café; coffee shop
- Synonym: koffiehuis
- pub, bar
- Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé
- snackbar
- Synonym: eetcafé
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé[1], from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.fe/
Standard French (file) Belgium (file) Central France (file) West France (file) Quebec (file)
Noun
café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)
- coffee (drink)
- coffee colour
- public house
- cafe, coffee shop
Derived terms
- bistouille
- café au lait
- café-bar
- café chocolaté
- café-concert
- café crème
- café filtre
- caféiculteur
- caféiculture
- caféier
- caféière
- caféine
- caféique
- caféisme
- café liégeois
- caféone
- cafèt’
- cafétéria
- caféterie
- café-théatre
- cafetier
- cafetière
- café turc
- capuccino
- déca
- décaféination
- décaféiné
- décaféiner
- expresso
- pause-café
- pousse-café
Descendants
- → Albanian: kafeja
- → Alemannic German: Kaafe
- → Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa3 fe1)
- → English: café
- → German: Café
- → German: Kaffee
- → Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)
- → Zhuang: gahfeih
- → Mongolian: кафе (kafe)
- → Norman: café
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi
- → Ojibwe: gaapii
- → Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
- → Portuguese: café
- Kadiwéu: gaape
- → Serbo-Croatian: kafić
- → Spanish: café
- → Swedish: café
- → Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)
References
Further reading
- “café” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Synonyms
- (coffee plant): cafeeira
Norman
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Noun
café m (plural cafés)
- coffee
- a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises
- Short for café da manhã.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Kadiwéu: gaape
Spanish

café
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈfe/
Audio (BOL) (file)
Derived terms
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈfeː/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eː
Declension
Declension of café | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | café | caféet | caféer | caféerna |
Genitive | cafés | caféets | caféers | caféernas |
Derived terms
The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.
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