marinade
French, noun/ma.ʁi.nad/
marinade is spelled M-A-R-I-N-A-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,838th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marinade is a French feminine noun meaning “marinade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Liquide assaisonné, souvent à base d’huile, dans lequel sont mis à tremper, quelques heures, des morceaux de…”.
What does marinade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemarinade
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Liquide assaisonné, souvent à base d’huile, dans lequel sont mis à tremper, quelques heures, des morceaux de viande ou de poisson pour les attendrir et en modifier le goût. 2. Viande ou légume mariné & frit à la poêle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of marinade
- marinades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marinade?
- /ma.ʁi.nad/
- \ma.ʁi.nad\
- [ma.ʁi.nad]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to marinade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marinade in French?
marinade appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).