Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
c. à s. de maïzena
English translation:
tablespoons (tbsps) of cornflour
French term
France
Reliable and Professional translations
Native in: Arabic (Variant: Standard-Arabian (MSA))
Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Arabic to French, and 1 more.
c. à s. de maïzena
1 kg de yaourt
1 bouquet de coriandre
4 gousses d’ ail
3 c. à s. de maïzena
sel, poivre
| 4 +16 | tablespoon of cornflour |
sporran
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| 5 +7 | tbsps. cornstarch |
MDI-IDM
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| 4 -1 | soup spoon of corn starch |
Janet Ratziu
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Mar 13, 2006 21:15: writeaway changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Proposed translations
tablespoon of cornflour
maïzena=a FR brand name for cornflour
France
Translations with Medical Experience
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English
soup spoon of corn starch
maïzena = corn starch (used as a thickening agent)
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Note added at 10 mins (2006-03-13 21:02:49 GMT)
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Would agree in practical terms that a soup spoon is approximately equivalent to a tablespoon
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writeaway
: in English soup spoon is never used. it's teaspoons or tablespoons
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Tony M
: Agree with W/A: we don't use 'soupspoon' as a measure, and also, in UK it would = dessertspoon = 10 ml (our soup spoons are smaller than French ones!)
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emiledgar
: a cuiller a soupe is a tablespoon
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tbsps. cornstarch
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Bailatjones
: pretty sure 'cornstarch' is more correct than 'cornflour'/ Thanks everyone!My Scottish father would be highly disappointed in my not checking US/UK differences :-)
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If it's numbers, I got more than 3 million google hits for cornstarch, but go on reading below please
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Carol Gullidge
: agrre with abbreviation, but it's always "cornflour" in UK English (Collins is quite specific: NF cornflour (brit), cornstarch (US)
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Of course, a google search for UK sites brought up 35 thousand instances of cornflour versus 33 thousand of cornstarch, which appears in the explanatory phrase "also known as"
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awilliams
: I've already added this in a peer answer above. Re Michelle's note - how on earth can you be *sure* that it is more "correct"? In the UK "cornflour" is more widespread; neither is *more correct* - it just depends on asker's intended audience!!!
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Exactly! That's what's great about Kudoz- you get to help others, AND learn!
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writeaway
: @Michelle: cornstarch is US and cornflour is UK. it's as simple as that./makes sense.North American English is probably better than US (there are differences though) and OZ uses UK English
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Cornstarch is also Canadian (100,000 plus Google results versus 522 for cornstarch) and cornflour is Australian (26 k versus 11 k)
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Trudy Peters
: correct for the US
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Thank you!
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Calou
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Thank you!
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IC --
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