Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #579 of 1319

marinate (v.)

to soak food in sauce

Examples

  • Marinate the chicken.

Key rules

  • Marinate means soak food in a liquid to add flavour
  • Marinate meat, marinate the chicken
  • Marinade is the noun

Common mistakes

  • The chicken marinate in the sauce → The chicken marinates in the sauce
💡 Tip: Cooking meat // Barbecue preparation // Recipes
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