Pizza

noun
pizza
A2

Means 'pizza'. Feminine noun: die Pizza. Standard plural Pizzen (also colloquial Pizzas). Declines regularly: die Pizza, die Pizzen; genitive der Pizzen. Common loanword from Italian; used for the dish and slices. No irregular stem changes; plural variant Pizzas is acceptable in informal speech.

Examples

Ich esse gerne Pizza.
I like eating pizza.
Wir bestellen heute Abend eine Pizza.
We're ordering a pizza tonight.
Die Familie bestellte eine Pizza, nachdem der lange Arbeitstag endlich vorbei war.
The family ordered a pizza after the long workday was finally over.

Details

PluralPizzen

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
nominativedie Pizzadie Pizzen
genitiveder Pizzader Pizzen
dativeder Pizzaden Pizzen
accusativedie Pizzadie Pizzen

Mnemonics

👁️Picture a hot pizza with the label 'Pizza' on the box.
👂Same as English 'pizza'.
⚧️die — many loanwords for foods can be feminine; remember 'die Pizza'.

Notes

Plural commonly 'Pizzen' (or 'Pizzas' in some contexts).

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