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Butter

butter

noun BUT-ter Less Common
Food & Drink Ingredients

Origin: from Greek boutyron via Latin

Usage Note

Butter is feminine in standard German, though regionally heard as masculine. It is a mass noun; the everyday open-faced sandwich Butterbrot takes its name from it.

Examples

"Sie strich dick Butter auf die Scheibe."

Natural Translation

She spread butter thickly on the slice.

Literal Translation

She spread thickly butter on the slice.

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