Word
Die Pizza ist heiß.
Meaning
The pizza is hot.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Die Pizza ist heiß.
Does heiß mean "hot" as in high temperature, or "hot" as in spicy?
In German, heiß only refers to temperature! If you want to say that the pizza is spicy-hot, you have to use the word scharf.
Since Pizza is a feminine noun, shouldn't the adjective be heiße?
No, because heiß comes after the verb here. In German, adjectives do not get endings when they are separated from the noun by a verb like ist. They only get endings when they sit directly in front of the noun, as in die heiße Pizza (the hot pizza).
Is there a trick to remembering that Pizza uses the feminine word die?
Yes! German borrows Pizza directly from Italian. As a general rule, foreign loan words that end in -a are almost always feminine in German. Other common examples are die Kamera and die Pasta.