See also: sauce and -sauce

German edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

Sauce f (genitive Sauce, plural Saucen)

  1. (cooking) Synonym of Soße

Usage notes edit

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 edit

Further reading edit

  • Sauce” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon