marinate
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into somethingTo allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
» Did you marinate this meat?
Hast du dieses Fleisch mariniert?
Haben Sie dieses Fleisch mariniert?
Habt ihr dieses Fleisch mariniert?
Meaning
5 senses(ergative, transitive)To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.
marinieren
маринова́тьmarinovátʹ, соли́тьsolítʹ, замаринова́тьzamarinovátʹ
маринува́тиmarynuváty, замарино́вуватиzamarynóvuvaty, замаринува́тиzamarynuváty
soak in marinade
(ambitransitive)To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
(ambitransitive)Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
(intransitive)Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
(figuratively, informal)Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.
It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!
Examples
17 sentencesDid you marinate this meat?
deHast du dieses Fleisch mariniert?
Are you still marinating the vegetables?
I would like marinated fish and seafood.
I fried the fish after marinating it.
He marinated the beef in soy sauce.
Translations
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Origin
First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested ItalianFirst attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).
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Forms
marinates, marinating, marinated, marinatedSynonyms
1 synonyms- soak in marinade:marinade
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle