Sauce

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)

(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 [feminine]

	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