spaetzle – English noun declension

English noun forms of spaetzle

Noun: spaetzle
Singularspaetzle
Pluralspaetzles; spaetzle

Sample Sentences

  • The results resemble spaetzle with a lovely nutty flavor. [2007 February 28, Florence Fabricant, “The Latest Woman to Join a Very Exclusive Club”, in New York Times:]
  • A backlash may have been inevitable. “There are more spätzle where those came from,” the Free Swabylon site warned, threatening that the entire neighborhood would “disappear under a spätzle layer of Swabian rage.” [2013 January 18, Nicholas Kulish, “Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]

Etymology

From German Spätzle, from Swabian Spätzle (compare Alemannic German Spätzli). See: German Nouns 'Spätzle'.