Breakdown of Die Suppe ist noch zu flüssig, aber sie schmeckt gut.
Questions & Answers about Die Suppe ist noch zu flüssig, aber sie schmeckt gut.
Here noch means still.
So Die Suppe ist noch zu flüssig means the soup is still too runny / still too thin. It suggests that the situation has not changed yet, often with the idea that it might improve later.
For example, this could be said while the soup is still cooking:
- It’s still too runny, but it tastes good.
Without noch, Die Suppe ist zu flüssig simply means The soup is too runny.
Zu means too in the sense of more than is desirable.
So:
- zu heiß = too hot
- zu kalt = too cold
- zu teuer = too expensive
- zu flüssig = too liquid / too runny / too thin
In natural English, too runny or too thin sounds better than the literal too liquid when talking about soup.