Sauce

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See also: sauce and -sauce

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French sauce, from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Latin salsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzoːsə/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /soːs/, /soːsɛ/ (Austria)
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Noun

Sauce f (genitive Sauce, plural Saucen)

  1. (cooking) Synonym of Soße

Usage notes

Reflecting the differing pronunciation, the spelling Sauce is commonly used in Austria and Switzerland, but considered dated and mostly replaced by Soße in Germany.

Declension

Declension of Sauce
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Sauce die Saucen
genitive einer der Sauce der Saucen
dative einer der Sauce den Saucen
accusative eine die Sauce die Saucen

Further reading

  • “Sauce” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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