Chef

== German == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French chef (“head, boss”). Compare English chief and Spanish jefe. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ʃɛf] === Noun === Chef m (strong, genitive Chefs, plural Chefs, feminine Chefin or Cheffin) 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 ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic script: ше̏ф Latin script: šȅf === Further reading === “Chef”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “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) boss, head, manager === Further reading === Chef in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire