"Café" meaning in German

See Café in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kaˈfeː/, /ˈkafe/ [nonstandard] Audio: De-Café.ogg
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: Borrowed from French café. Doublet of Kaffee. Etymology templates: {{bor+|de|fr|café}} Borrowed from French café, {{doublet|de|Kaffee}} Doublet of Kaffee Head templates: {{de-noun|n,,s}} Café n (strong, genitive Cafés, plural Cafés) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n,,s}} Forms: Cafés [genitive], Cafés [plural], strong [table-tags], Café [nominative, singular], Cafés [definite, nominative, plural], Cafés [genitive, singular], Cafés [definite, genitive, plural], Café [dative, singular], Cafés [dative, definite, plural], Café [accusative, singular], Cafés [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. a café, a coffee shop Tags: neuter, strong Categories (topical): Coffee, Restaurants Synonyms: Kaffeehaus
    Sense id: en-Café-de-noun-UABpILT3 Disambiguation of Coffee: 66 34 Disambiguation of Restaurants: 99 1 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19
  2. (obsolete or nonstandard) coffee Tags: neuter, nonstandard, obsolete, strong Synonyms: Kaffee
    Sense id: en-Café-de-noun-NykNdKxN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: Gaststätte
Hyponyms: Internet-Café, Lesecafé, Nachtcafé, Schachcafé, Sportcafé, Stammcafé, Stehcafé, Straßencafé, Almcafé, Blümchencafé, Bohnencafé, Eiscafé, Gebirgscafé, Häferlcafé [Austria], Katercafé, Kosakencafé, Milchcafé, Zarencafé

Inflected forms

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