bifteck – French noun declension

Noun: bifteck
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	bifteck
Plural m	biftecks

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bifteck

trichogramme, wintergreen, urinoir, contrespionnage, aréomètre, palefroi, whiskey, whippin, tee-shirt, hypocycloïde, surrisque, lanternon, dissentiment, phonogramme, phonographe, trioxygène, fétichisme, synode, synthé, modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

18th century, from English beefsteak with the cluster /fst/ reduced to /ft/ (or less often to /st/). The spelling was highly variable up into the 20th century until bifteck established itself, which is phonetic but adds the “un-French” -k, be it as a pseudo-English form or after the related steak (whose spelling remained unaltered). See: English Nouns 'beefsteak'.

Verbs referencing "bifteck"

Czech Nouns biftek, Portuguese Nouns bisteca, English Nouns bifteki, Romanian Nouns biftec, Greek Nouns μπιφτέκι.

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