Kilo Lingo

sugar

/ˈʃʊɡ.ə/

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Translation

A sweet white or brown food that people add to drinks and cakes.

Word origin

From Old French sucre, from Arabic sukkar, from an old word for sweet crystals.

Origin
Old French
Root
sucre

Examples

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"Sugar" is the sweet white food added to the tea.

.

"Sugar" has no plural, so we say "much sugar".

Please .

Here "sugar" is the sweet food I am asking for.

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This word is part of lesson 11.