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Soja-Sauce: der, die or das?

dieSoja-Sauce

Soy sauce

feminin · feminineFood and drinkLevel: Advanced

Short answer: Soja-Sauce takes the article die (die Soja-Sauce). It’s a feminine noun (German: feminin) and means “soy sauce” in English.

Soja-Sauce: word facts

Article
die
Gender
feminin (feminine)
English
Soy sauce
Topic
Food and drink
Yupo level
Advanced

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Why does Soja-Sauce take die?

Nouns ending in -e usually take die. In Yupo’s list, 583 of 607 such words take die (96%).

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In Yupo, die words are red. Picture Soja-Sauce as something red.

Always say and write the word with its article: not “Soja-Sauce” but “die Soja-Sauce”.

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