noun
lemonade
B1
Lemonade: sweet lemon-flavored soft drink or chilled lemon drink. German noun feminine (die Limonade). Plural: die Limonaden. Can be used countably (eine Limonade) or uncountably as a beverage. Regular declension (Genitive der Limonade). Common in casual, culinary contexts and cafés.
Examples
Die Kinder tranken Limonade, nachdem die Eltern die Gläser gekühlt hatten.
The children drank lemonade after the parents had chilled the glasses.
Ich möchte eine Limonade, bitte.
I'd like a lemonade, please.
An heißen Tagen trinke ich gerne eine kühle Limonade.
On hot days, I like to drink a cold lemonade.
Details
Mnemonics
Picture a cold glass with a lemon slice and bubbles on a hot day.
Sounds like 'lemon aid' — imagine a lemon helping you cool down.
Die Limonade — think of the feminine 'die' as a delicate glass with a straw.
Notes
Commonly used for sweet, carbonated lemon-flavoured drinks in German; plural is Limonaden.