kuchen
See also: Kuchen, Küchen, and küchen-
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Kuchen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkukən/
Noun
kuchen (uncountable)
- Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
- 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, OCLC 2883166:
- “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.
- 2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:
- We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.
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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
Inflection
| Inflection 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 | 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. | ||||
Noun
kuchen
- Plural form of kuch
Spanish
Etymology
From German Kuchen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuxen/ [ˈku.xẽn]
- Rhymes: -uxen
Noun
kuchen m (plural kúchenes)
- cake, especially made with fruit