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LA COMIDA
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La Comida - Food

What is your favourite food? Practise your Spanish by replying out loud to the following questions in bold. Each phrase is followed by some helpful Spanish words.

 

¿Qué comida te gusta comer? - What food do you like to eat?

Me gusta - I like (singular)

Me gustan - I like (plural)

No me gusta - I don't like (singular)

No me gustan - I don't like (plural)

mucho - a lot

un poco - a little

nada - at all

la ensalada - salad

la sopa - soup

las verduras - vegetables (plural)

la carne - meat

el pescado - fish

el arroz - rice

la ensalada - salad

la pizza - pizza

los espaguetis - spaghetti (plural)

las hamburguesas - hamburgers (plural)

los perritos calientes - hotdogs (plural)

la fruta - fruit

los yogures - yoghurts (plural)

el queso - cheese

los pasteles - cakes (plural)

el chocolate - chocolate

No me gusta nada la sopa. - I don't like soup at all.

Note: Use 'me gusta' for anything singular and 'me gustan' for anything plural. For example: 'No me gusta la pizza' - 'I do not like pizza.' 'Me gustan los pasteles.' - 'I like cakes.'

It is also worth noting that some foods which are singular in English are plural in Spanish. For exqample, spaghetti is 'los espaguetis'. The word for meat is feminine: 'la carne'. However fish is masculine: 'el pescado'.

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