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juif

French, noun

juif is spelled J-U-I-F (4 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Juif is a French masculine noun meaning “Jew (follower of Judaism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Juif is a different word: “Jew (a person with a Jewish cultural or ancestral connection)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne appartenant à la descendance du peuple sémite établi en Israël, de religion monothéiste, que cette…”.

What does juif mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Jewish (following the religion of Judaism)

  2. 2

    offensivestingy, miserly, avaricious

noun

  1. 1

    masculineJew (follower of Judaism)

noun

as Juif
  1. 1

    masculineJew (a person with a Jewish cultural or ancestral connection)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif au royaume de Juda. 2. Relatif au peuple hébreu, à sa culture. 3. Relatif au judaïsme.

noun: 1. Personne appartenant à la descendance du peuple sémite établi en Israël, de religion monothéiste, que cette personne se conforme ou non à la religion juive et aux traditions judaïques. 2. Personne fidèle au judaïsme. 3. Usurier ; personne âpre au gain, homme riche.

noun: 1. Personne appartenant au peuple juif.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of juif

  • juive feminine
  • juifs masculine plural
  • juives feminine plural
  • Juifs plural
  • Juive feminine
  • juif·ve neuter
  • juifve neuter

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to juif

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is juif in French?

juif appears 22 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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