Short answer: BBQ-Sauce takes the article die (die BBQ-Sauce). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “BBQ sauce” in English.
BBQ-Sauce: word facts
- Article
- die
- Gender
- feminin (feminine)
- English
- BBQ sauce
- Topic
- Food and drink
- Yupo level
- Advanced
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Why does BBQ-Sauce take die?
Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).
See the article rules →Remember it by color
In Yupo, die words are red. Picture BBQ-Sauce as something red.
Always say and write the word with its article: not “BBQ-Sauce” but “die BBQ-Sauce”.
