sugar in English: A sweet white or brown food that people add to drinks and cakes. (noun)

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.

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

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

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

food

Food is anything that people or animals eat to stay alive and grow.

tea

A hot drink made by pouring hot water onto dried leaves.

coffee

A hot brown drink made from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant.

cake

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

salt

A white food, made of tiny grains, that we add to make food taste better.

candy

A small sweet food made mostly of sugar. This is the American word; Britain says "sweets".

cream

The thick, rich part of milk, often eaten with fruit or cake.

chocolate

A sweet brown food made from cocoa beans, sold in bars or used in cakes and drinks.

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