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What does "kiffer" mean?

To love, to really enjoy something.

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🇫🇷 French
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kee-FAY
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Friends & informal

How it's actually used

"Je kiffe" means I love it. Used for music, food, places, and people. Very common among younger speakers and a clear marker of contemporary spoken French.

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Where it comes from

From Arabic kayf (pleasure, wellbeing) — one of many Maghrebi borrowings in modern French.

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