chef – French noun declension

French noun forms of chef

Noun: chef
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mchef
Singular fcheffe
Plural mchefs

Sample Sentences

  • opiner du chef (to nod)
  • les principaux chefs d’une demande (the main points of a request)
  • Le procureur a tenu à refaire une lecture des chefs d’accusation. (The prosecutor insisted on reading off the counts of indictment again.)
  • d'or au chef de gueules (or, a chief gules)

Nouns inflected like chef

sous-chef, chef,

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French chief, from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of cap. See: Latin Nouns 'caput'.

Verbs referencing "chef"

French Nouns tête, Portuguese Nouns chefe, Bulgarian Nouns шеф, Russian Nouns шеф, Ukrainian Nouns шеф, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns sjef, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjef, Romanian Nouns șef, Catalan Nouns xef, Asturian Nouns xefe.

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