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Ofen

oven

noun OH-fen Less Common

Also means

stove

Usage Note

Ofen is the oven for baking and roasting; Backofen makes the kitchen sense explicit. Plural takes umlaut: Öfen. The same word names a heating stove.

Examples

"Heize den Ofen auf zweihundert Grad vor."

Natural Translation

Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees.

Literal Translation

Heat the oven on two-hundred degrees pre.

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