noun
chicken (small/young chicken), roast chicken / chicken dish
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Hühnchen means a small/young chicken or a chicken dish/roast. It's a neuter noun (das) formed with diminutive -chen, so the plural is identical: die Hühnchen. Singular genitive adds -s (des Hühnchens). It's not a verb and takes no special prepositions; common on menus.
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Zum Mittagessen gab es gebratenes Hühnchen mit Reis.
For lunch there was roast chicken with rice.
Die Familie bestellte Hühnchen, weil das Restaurant spezielle Saucen empfohlen hatte.
The family ordered chicken because the restaurant had recommended special sauces.
Für das Abendessen bereite ich ein leckeres Hühnchen-Curry zu.
For dinner, I'm preparing a delicious chicken curry.
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Picture a small roasted chicken on a plate with steam rising — that plate is the 'Hühnchen'.
huehn-chen — think 'huehn' like 'hen' + '-chen' (diminutive) = little hen
das = neuter; think of a small thing / dish often labeled with 'das' in German.
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Hühnchen can refer both to a small/young chicken (animal) and to chicken as a prepared dish (roast chicken). It is a diminutive form and commonly used in menus.