soy sauce
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- noun
- /sɔɪ sɔs/
- US
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salsa de soja
- For a rich flavor, add a splash of soy sauce to your stir-fry.
The Chinese cuisine has soy sauce, hoisin sauce, fish sauce.
- The Chinese cuisine has soy sauce, hoisin sauce, fish sauce.
- And you're going to dip it in soy sauce and hot mustard, right?
- Chicken, pork, garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, ground pepper and Bay leaf.
- You've got good saltiness, good soy sauce, MSG.
Examples
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My favorite recipe calls for marinating the chicken in soy sauce and ginger.
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You want soy sauce on that, hon?
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Do you want to eat this with soy sauce?
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- We can have rice with soy sauce.
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- You put soy sauce on eggs, too?
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When it comes to sushi, it feels like soy sauce is an absolute must.
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What you do is take a cup of Minute Rice, two tablespoons of soy sauce.
Fiction book (1993) -
Add cooked chicken, rice, and soy sauce to the wok, then toss well to combine.
Blog text (1) -
Get some salmon, put some soy sauce, some grated ginger, some garlic, squeeze of honey.
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Sushi is often served with soy sauce for dipping.
Synonyms
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A thin dark sauce from fermented beans used to add salty flavor to food
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A dark, rich soy sauce used in Japanese cooking that is often wheat-free
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A Japanese soy sauce used to season food
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound's meaning is directly built from its parts: 'soy' (from soybeans) + 'sauce' (a liquid condiment), so the referent — a sauce made from soy — is immediately inferable. This noun–noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'salsa de soja', Japanese 'shoyu'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Soy sauce is simply named for its parts: soy (soybeans) and sauce (a liquid used to add flavor). It was made by fermenting soybeans into a dark, salty liquid used to 'season' food, so the name directly tells what it does.