cake
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an…A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
» Please help yourself to the cake.
Bitte bedienen Sie sich selbst beim Kuchen.
Пожалуйста, угощайтесь тортиком.
Угощайтесь пирогом, пожалуйста.
Угощайся пирогом, пожалуйста.
Будь ласка, пригощайся тортиком.
Будь ласка, пригощайся тістечком.
Будь ласка, пригощайтеся тістечком.
Будь ласка, пригощайтеся тортиком.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Kuchen, Torte
тортtort, пиро́жноеpiróžnoje, кексkeks
тортtort, ті́стечкоtístečko, кексkeks
food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven
(countable, uncountable)A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
an oatmeal cake
a johnnycake
small flat mass of chopped or ground food
(countable, uncountable)A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
buckwheat cakes
блинblin, лепёшкаlepjóška
(countable, uncountable)A block of any various dense materials.
a cake of soap
a cake of sand
Stück
пли́ткаplítka, лепёшкаlepjóška, кусо́кkusók
(countable, slang, uncountable)Synonym of money.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
(countable, uncountable)A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Feuerwerksbatterie
(UK, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A foolish person.
Examples
1867 sentencesPlease help yourself to the cake.
Будь ласка, пригощайся тортиком.
ruПожалуйста, угощайтесь тортиком.
deBitte bedienen Sie sich selbst beim Kuchen.
Will you have some more cake?
Візьмеш ще пирога?
How about another piece of cake?
Хочеш ще шматочок торта?
deWie wäre es mit noch einem Stück Kuchen?
My mother is making a cake.
Мама робить торт.
ruМоя мама делает торт.
deMeine Mutter ist dabei einen Kuchen zu machen.
Who wants another piece of cake?
Хто хоче ще шматочек торту?
ruКто хочет ещё кусочек торта?
deWer will noch ein Stück Kuchen?
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
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Forms
plural: cakesSynonyms
9 synonymsWord family
266 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- piece of cake
- baked a cake
- a birthday cake
- a cake for
- birthday cake
- baking a cake
- chocolate cake
- cut the cake
- some cake
- making a cake
- cake for dessert
- divided the cake