caifé

See also: caife

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè or French café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”).

Noun

caifé m (genitive singular caifé, nominative plural caiféanna)

  1. café, cafeteria

Declension
Declension of caifé

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caifé caiféanna
Vocative a chaifé a chaiféanna
Genitive caifé caiféanna
Dative caifé caiféanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an caifé na caiféanna
Genitive an chaifé na gcaiféanna
Dative leis an gcaifé

don chaifé

 leis na caiféanna

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
caifé chaifé gcaifé
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "caife" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “caifé” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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