Chef

See also: chef, chèf, and chef-

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chef (“head, boss”). Compare English chief and Spanish jefe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃɛf]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Chef m (strong, genitive Chefs, plural Chefs, feminine Chefin or Cheffin)

1. boss, chief

Usage notes

Note that Chef is a false friend and does not mean "chef". The general word for "chef" is Koch unless you want to imply the person has some form of leadership in which case you would use Chefkoch or Küchenchef.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Chef	die	Chefs
genitive	eines	des	Chefs	der	Chefs
dative	einem	dem	Chef	den	Chefs
accusative	einen	den	Chef	die	Chefs

Declension of Chef [masculine, strong]

Derived terms

• Al-Kaida-Chef
• CDU-Chef
• Chefallüren
• Chefetage
• Chefideologe
• Chefin
• Chefkoch
• Chefredakteur
• Chefzimmer
• Fraktionschef
• Klubchef
• Konzernchef
• Küchenchef
• Regierungschef
• SPD-Chef
• Taliban-Chef
• Unternehmenschef
• Vorstandschef

 

Descendants

• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ше̏ф
  • Latin script: šȅf

Further reading

• “Chef” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Chef” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Chef” in Duden online
• Chef on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæf/

Noun

Chef m (plural Cheffen, feminine Cheffin)

1. boss, head, manager