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lasagna
An Italian dish consisting of layers of wide pasta sheets, meat sauce, béchamel sauce, and cheese, baked in the oven.
Am Sonntag gibt es bei uns zu Hause oft eine große Lasagne für die ganze Familie.
On Sundays, we often have a large lasagna at home for the whole family.
The word 'Lasagne' (lasagna) can be used both countably and uncountably. If you are talking about a portion or a whole dish, you say 'eine Lasagne' (a lasagna). If you are talking generally about the food or about the pasta sheets, it is often used uncountably.
Ich hätte gern eine Lasagne und einen Salat.
I’d like a lasagna and a salad, please.
You can tell whether the dish or the pasta sheets are meant from the context. In connection with quantities like 'eine Packung' (a package) or verbs like 'kaufen' (to buy), the pasta is usually meant. With verbs like 'essen' (to eat) or 'bestellen' (to order), it is about the finished dish.
Im Supermarktregal findest du die Lasagne neben den Spaghetti.
In the supermarket aisle, you’ll find the lasagna sheets next to the spaghetti.
When referring to the dish, 'Lasagne' (lasagna) is often combined with the verbs 'machen' (to make), 'zubereiten' (to prepare), 'essen' (to eat), or 'im Ofen backen' (to bake in the oven). Variations like 'vegetarische Lasagne' (vegetarian lasagna) are also common.
Heute Abend mache ich eine vegetarische Lasagne.
Tonight I’m making a vegetarian lasagna.
noodle
'die Nudel' and 'die Lasagne' both belong to the topic of food and can be connected to pasta. 'Nudeln' is the general term for many shapes of cooked pasta, for example spaghetti or penne. 'Lasagne' usually means a finished baked dish with layers of pasta sheets, sauce, and cheese. Sometimes 'Lasagne' also means only the wide pasta sheets used for it. Learners may confuse the words because lasagna consists of pasta. Practically speaking: every lasagna contains pasta, but not every noodle is lasagna.
Am Sonntag backt Maria eine Lasagne für ihre Familie.
On Sunday, Maria bakes a lasagna for her family.
Zum Abendessen koche ich Nudeln mit Tomatensoße.
For dinner, I'm cooking pasta with tomato sauce.