Kilo Lingo

cake

/keɪk/

Line drawing of cake
Coloured illustration of cake
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Translation

A sweet, soft food made from flour, eggs, and sugar and baked in an oven.

Word origin

From Old Norse kaka, a word for a small baked lump of dough.

Origin
Old Norse
Root
kaka

Grammar

Gender
Pluralcakes

Examples

birthday .

"Cake" is one sweet, soft food.

.

"Cakes" is the plural, meaning more than one cake.

slice .

Here "cake" is the sweet food I want to eat.

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