A German sausage, usually pale-coloured, made of pork (sometimes veal or beef) with salt and spices, and normally fried or grilled rather than boiled. In English it is a food word, not a general word for sausage — you order a bratwurst, or you cook bratwurst on a barbecue. Many people shorten it to 'brat' (rhymes with 'cat') in American English, especially in the Midwest, where a bratwurst in a bun with mustard is ordinary picnic and stadium food, like a hot dog but thicker and coarser. The plural is usually 'bratwursts' in English, though a German speaker would say 'Bratwürste'. Because it is a foreign word, people are shy about saying it — both 'BRAT-wurst' and the more German 'BRAHT-voorst' are heard, and no one will correct you. Note that it is uncountable when you talk about the food in general ('we had bratwurst') and countable when you mean the individual sausages ('he ate three bratwursts').

德國香腸、德式白香腸（口語常說「德國香腸」，菜單上有時直接寫 bratwurst 或音譯「布拉特香腸」）