kuchen
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Marmorkuchen (marble cake)
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.
Pronunciation
Noun
kuchen (countable and uncountable, plural kuchens)
- Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
- 1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72:
- French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.
- 1920 November 9, D H Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
- “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.
- 1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24:
- Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.
- 1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:
- It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch cuchen, coechen, cochen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. Akin to English cough, German keuchen.
Pronunciation
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Verb
kuchen
- to give out a dry and brief cough
Conjugation
| Conjugation of kuchen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | kuchen | |||
| past singular | kuchte | |||
| past participle | gekucht | |||
| infinitive | kuchen | |||
| gerund | kuchen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | kuch | kuchte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | kucht, kuch2 | kuchte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | kucht | kuchte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | kucht | kuchte | ||
| 3rd person singular | kucht | kuchte | ||
| plural | kuchen | kuchten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | kuche | kuchte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | kuchen | kuchten | ||
| imperative sing. | kuch | |||
| imperative plur.1 | kucht | |||
| participles | kuchend | gekucht | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Noun
kuchen
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.
Pronunciation
Noun
kuchen m (plural kúchenes)
- cake, especially made with fruit
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.