Skip to content

portefeuille

wallet, portfolio

noun por-tuh-FUH-yuh Less Common
Home & Lifestyle Household Items

Also means

(investment) portfolio

Usage Note

Portefeuille literally means 'carries-sheets' (from porter + feuille), originally a folder for documents. Today it means both a physical wallet and a financial or political portfolio — un portefeuille d'actions (stock portfolio) or un portefeuille ministériel (ministerial portfolio).

Examples

"J'ai laissé mon portefeuille à la maison."

Natural Translation

I left my wallet at home.

Free starter pack

Building your French vocabulary?

Get the 100 most common French words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.

Explore French by topic