fondue

fondue

See also: Fondue

English

A fondue set: cheese being kept warm, with bread and other foods nearby for dipping

Etymology

Borrowed from French fondue (“melted”), from fondre (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒnduː/

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑnˈdu/

Noun

fondue (countable and uncountable, plural fondues)

1. A dish made of melted cheese, chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.

   a Swiss fondue

Derived terms

• fondue fork

Translations

dish

Afrikaans: fondue Arabic: فُونْدُو‎ m (fūndū) Armenian: ֆոնդյու (hy) (fondyu) Chinese: Mandarin: (Cheese fondue) 干酪火鍋／干酪火锅 (gānlào huǒguō), (chocolate) 巧克力火鍋／巧克力火锅 (qiǎokèlì huǒguō), (usually implies Chinese hot pot) 火鍋／火锅 (zh) (huǒguō) Danish: fondue (da) Dutch: fondue (nl) Finnish: fondue (fi), fondyy (fi) French: fondue (fr) f German: Fondue (de) n Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: fondü (hu) Italian: fonduta (it) f Japanese: フォンデュ (fondyu) Korean: 퐁뒤 (pongdwi) Macedonian: фонду n (fondu) Malay: fondu Persian: فندو‎ (fa) (fondu) Polish: fondue (pl) n Portuguese: fondue m or f Romanian: fondue f Russian: фондю́ (ru) n (fondjú) Spanish: fondue (es) f Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: fondue (sv) Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: ฟงดูว์ (fong-duu) Turkish: fondü Ukrainian: фондю́ (fondjú) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

fondue (third-person singular simple present fondues, present participle fonduing or fondueing, simple past and past participle fondued)

1. To prepare or serve as a fondue.

See also

• fondue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Related terms

• fondant
• fondu

Anagrams

• founde

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfondyː/, [ˈfo̞ndyː]

Noun

fondue

1. Alternative form of fondyy.

Declension

Inflection of fondue (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		fondue	fonduet
genitive		fonduen	fondueiden fondueitten
partitive		fondueta	fondueita
illative		fonduehyn fonduehen	fondueihin
		singular	plural
nominative		fondue	fonduet
accusative	nom.	fondue	fonduet
	gen.	fonduen
genitive		fonduen	fondueiden fondueitten
partitive		fondueta	fondueita
inessive		fonduessa	fondueissa
elative		fonduesta	fondueista
illative		fonduehyn fonduehen	fondueihin
adessive		fonduella	fondueilla
ablative		fonduelta	fondueilta
allative		fonduelle	fondueille
essive		fonduena	fondueina
translative		fondueksi	fondueiksi
instructive		—	fonduein
abessive		fonduetta	fondueitta
comitative		—	fondueineen

Possessive forms of fondue (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	fondueni	fonduemme
2nd person	fonduesi	fonduenne
3rd person	fonduensa

or

Inflection of fondue (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		fondue	fonduet
genitive		fonduen	fondueiden fondueitten
partitive		fonduetä	fondueitä
illative		fonduehyn fonduehen	fondueihin
		singular	plural
nominative		fondue	fonduet
accusative	nom.	fondue	fonduet
	gen.	fonduen
genitive		fonduen	fondueiden fondueitten
partitive		fonduetä	fondueitä
inessive		fonduessä	fondueissä
elative		fonduestä	fondueistä
illative		fonduehyn fonduehen	fondueihin
adessive		fonduellä	fondueillä
ablative		fondueltä	fondueiltä
allative		fonduelle	fondueille
essive		fonduenä	fondueinä
translative		fondueksi	fondueiksi
instructive		—	fonduein
abessive		fonduettä	fondueittä
comitative		—	fondueineen

Possessive forms of fondue (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	fondueni	fonduemme
2nd person	fonduesi	fonduenne
3rd person	fonduensä

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French

Etymology

From fondre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃.dy/

Adjective

fondue

1. feminine singular of fondu

Noun

fondue f (plural fondues)

1. fondue

Derived terms

• fondue bourguignonne
• fondue savoyarde
• fourchette à fondue

 

Descendants

• → English: fondue
• → Polish: fondue
• → Portuguese: fondue
• → Romanian: fondue
• → Spanish: fondue
• → Turkish: fondü

Further reading

• “fondue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Adjective

fondue

1. feminine singular of fondu

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔnˈdi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔndi
• Syllabification: fon‧due

Noun

fondue n (indeclinable)

1. fondue (dish)

Further reading

• fondue in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fondue in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fõˈd͡ʒi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fõˈdy/

Noun

fondue m or f (plural fondues)

1. fondue (dish of molten cheese)

References

1. “fondue” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
2. “fondue” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fondue.

Noun

fondue f (plural fondue)

1. fondue (dish)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French fondue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fonˈdu/ [fõn̪ˈd̪u]
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

fondue f (plural fondues)

1. fondue (dish)

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.

Further reading

• “fondue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

fondue c

1. a fondue

Declension

Declension of fondue
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fondue	fonduen	fonduer	fonduerna
Genitive	fondues	fonduens	fonduers	fonduernas

References

• fondue in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fondue in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)