Kaffee

Meaning

1. (masculine,strong) coffee (beverage made by infusing coffee beans in hot water)
2. (masculine,regional,strong) afternoon coffee, afternoon tea, coffee and cake (afternoon meal in northern and central Germany, particularly on Sundays)

Concepts

coffee

☕

coffee bean

tea

🫖

Coffea

java

joe

tea room

Boys on the Side

café

cafe

restaurant

Synonyms

Kaffeepflanze

Käffchen

Kaffeebohne

Café

koffeinfrei

Jause

Schokolamai

Wachmacher

braun

Kaffebohne

Cafe

Espresso

Kaffeehaus

Dialects

Aargau

gafi

Basel-Landschaft

kaffi

Basel-Landschaft

stäägeläänesyyrup

Graubünden

kafi

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Hyphenated as

Kaf‧fee

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkafe/

Etymology

Borrowed from French: café

Cognate with Dutch: koffie

In summary

17th century, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوة (qahwa). The variants with -o-, which fell into disuse around 1800, are from Dutch koffie and English coffee.

Sentences

Ist der Kaffee zu stark ?

Is the coffee too strong?

Doch Kaffee braucht vom Anpflanzen bis zur Ernte acht Jahre .

But coffee takes eight years from planting to harvest.