noun
onion
B1
Meaning: 'onion', a common cooking vegetable. German noun feminine: die Zwiebel. Plural: Zwiebeln. Declines regularly for feminine nouns (die Zwiebel, der Zwiebel in dative). No irregular plural. Often appears in compounds (Zwiebelkuchen) and everyday culinary vocabulary. Used worldwide in kitchens, basic ingredient.
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Ich schneide eine Zwiebel.
I'm cutting an onion.
Die Zwiebel ist in der Suppe.
There's an onion in the soup.
Die Köchin schnitt die Zwiebel, bevor sie die Pfanne erhitzte, weil der Duft wichtig für das Rezept war.
The cook chopped the onion before she heated the pan because the aroma was important for the recipe.
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imagining layers like rings around a planet — a layered round onion
sounds a bit like 'sweeble' — imagine a wobbling onion
die = she. Imagine a woman (she) holding an onion to remember it's feminine (die Zwiebel).
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Very common kitchen vegetable. Many learners confuse Zwiebel (onion) with Zwieback (rusk). Cutting onions often causes tears.