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naïf

/na.if/

adjective/na.if/

naive, dewy-eyed; gullible

Il est vraiment naïf, il a gobé tout ce qu'ils lui ont raconté.He is really naive; he swallowed everything that they told him.

Inherited from Old French naïf, inherited from Latin nātīvus. Doublet of natif. Semantical shift from "original; natural; simple" to "simple-minded".