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Food and drink in Valencian

241 words in Valencian on the topic “food and drink”: el cafè — coffee, el te — tea, l'aigua — water, el pa — bread. 241 words can be played from recordings.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

241 words on the topic

  • el cafè
    coffee
    Both the drink and the place. The article el tells you the gender — nouns are learned with it, like la taronja
  • el te
    tea
    El te with an accent is tea; te without one is to you. The pair works just like sí and si
  • l'aigua
    water
    A feminine word that takes the el-article squeezed into l': l'aigua. The apostrophe is not decoration, it is required spelling
  • el pa
    bread
    The bakery is the fleca, a word Spanish has nothing like. Pa amb tomaca — bread with tomato — is the country's signature snack
  • el formatge
    cheese
    A cousin of French fromage and it sounds like one: for-MA-dje. The tg reads as dj
  • la carn
    meat
    Meat in general. The cuts are built by description: carn de vedella — beef, carn de porc — pork
  • el peix
    fish
    The ix sounds like ysh here: peysh. Fish in the sea is peix too, where Spanish keeps a separate word
  • la fruita
    fruit
    A collective, so it stays singular: m'agrada la fruita — I like fruit. One piece is una fruita
  • la poma
    apple
    Hence pomar, an apple orchard. New York stays la Gran Poma — the Big Apple
  • la taronja
    orange
    Both the fruit and the color: una samarreta taronja — an orange T-shirt. Valencia, the city that sent the word across Europe, is orange country
  • la tomaca
    tomato
    A Valencian word and form, feminine — the central norm says el tomàquet. The snack is the same: pa amb tomaca
  • l'amanida
    salad
    From amanir, to dress. Here it means vegetables with oil and vinegar, not anything under mayonnaise
  • la sopa
    soup
    And to have supper is sopar — the evening meal is named after the spoon
  • la sal
    salt
    Feminine, though it ends in a consonant: «la sal». A pinch of salt is «un pessic de sal»
  • bo
    tasty
    Full forms: bo about a man or a thing, bona about a woman or a feminine noun. Food is judged through estar: està bo — good right now
  • la llet
    milk
    A soft ly at the start: lyet. Cafè amb llet is the morning classic, generous with milk in Valencia
  • menjar
    to eat
    Both to eat and to have lunch: mengem a les dos? — lunch at two? Before e the j turns into g: mengem, mengeu. The noun for food is the same word
  • beure
    to drink
    Drinking plain and simple. Softer and wider is prendre: prenguem alguna cosa? — shall we have something?
  • l'esmorzar
    breakfast
    The meal itself, as a noun; the verb version lives apart
  • el dinar
    lunch
    The main midday meal; el dinar de diumenge — the Sunday lunch, an institution
  • el sopar
    supper
    The evening meal, late and light; sopar a les deu — supper at ten
  • mastegar
    to chew
    Chew well — the grandmother's word at the table
  • empassar
    to swallow
    Swallow food or pride; empassar-se les paraules — swallow your words
  • l'apetit
    appetite
    Bon apetit! — the phrase before every meal here
  • el tros
    a chunk
    The plain piece — of bread, of cake; the un- entry was the polite slice
  • l'olor
    smell
    Any smell, good or bad; fer olor — to smell (of something)
  • l'oli
    oil
    The oil; there is always some in the kitchen — pa amb oli is the old name of the tomato bread
  • la patata
    potato
    Plural: «patates». Chips are «patates fregides»
  • la farina
    flour
    The flour; bread is made of it, water and salt
  • la mel
    honey
    The honey; sweet and good with tea — and the mother of melmelada's name
  • els fruits secs
    nuts
    Literally dry fruits — the nuts; good for the heart
  • la ceba
    onion
    SEH-ba. The base of the sofrit — the slow frying half of local dishes start with. It makes people cry, and plorar fits right here
  • la pastanaga
    carrot
    pas-ta-NAH-ga — a hard g before a. The plural is pastanagues: the u keeps the g hard before e
  • el pebrot
    bell pepper
    The entry is the pepper again — the salad kind; I put it in with the tomato
  • la mongeta
    bean
    The bean; the white kind goes with rice
  • les espècies
    spices
    Always plural in the set sense; they smell good in the kitchen
  • cuinar
    to cook
    Cook in the kitchen; today my dad does it
  • rentar
    to wash (dishes)
    The entry is the washing — now the dishes; I wash them after lunch
  • el ganivet
    knife
    ga-nee-VET with a stressed é and a t at the end. El ganivet i la forquilla — knife and fork: a pair set at every table
  • bullir
    to boil
    Boil the eggs for breakfast; the water bullir too
  • fregir
    to fry
    freh-JEER. Hence patates fregides — fried potatoes: the same participle. Ous fregits — fried eggs, literally "fried eggs"
  • coure
    to bake
    Bake and cook through; mum bakes bread every week
  • tallar
    to cut
    ta-LYAHR: the double ll is ly. Tallar el cabell — to cut hair: the same word. La talla — the size, also from here
  • l'olla
    pot
    The cooking pot; the rice one is on the flame
  • la paella
    frying pan
    The pan — and the famous rice dish took its name from it
  • el fogó
    stove
    From foc, fire: the stove here is a burner. El fogó té quatre focs — four burners, literally "fires": counted by fire
  • el plat
    plate
    The plate — and a whole dish: un plat de salad
  • la tassa
    cup
    Plural: «tasses». «Una tassa de cafè» — a cup of coffee: the word is also a measure
  • el got
    glass
    The drinking glass; one of cold water, please
  • la cullera
    spoon
    ku-LYEH-ra: the double ll is ly. A little spoon is cullereta, also the teaspoon: the diminutive works
  • la forquilla
    fork
    The fork; knife and fork lie next to the plate
  • l'ampolla
    bottle
    With l'. El coll de l'ampolla — the neck of the bottle, literally. Una ampolla d'aigua — water in a bottle
  • la nevera
    fridge
    From la neu, snow: the fridge here is a "snowbox". What makes snow stands in the kitchen. Ice is el gel
  • el tovalló
    napkin
    Masculine: el tovalló — the napkin; a paper one is tovalló de paper. The towel, la tovalla, is a relative: similar words, different things
  • la tetera
    kettle
    The teapot-kettle; I put it on the stove
  • la safata
    tray
    The tray; I carry it with the cups
  • calent
    hot
    Feminine: «calenta». The weather is said differently: «fa calor» — it’s hot
  • fred
    cold (adj)
    Cold to the sense; the river water is cold
  • afamat
    hungry
    From la fam, hunger: "full of hunger". In life they say tinc fam — "I hold hunger", like tinc por; the adjective is bookish
  • el gust
    taste
    The taste of food and of a person: bon gust works both ways. The taster's question: quin gust té? — what does it taste like?
  • salat
    salty
    The entry is the salty again; the soup is too salted
  • agre
    sour
    Two syllables. Feminine agra. Llet agra — sour milk: the same word about what has gone off
  • amarg
    bitter
    Bitter; coffee without sugar is bitter
  • picant
    hot (spicy)
    The entry is the spicy again; I don't eat hot pepper
  • ple
    full (fed)
    Full — of food and of the box alike; I don't want more, I'm full
  • provar
    to taste (try)
    El provador and emprovar — the fitting room and the trying-on — come from this verb. Provar is also tasting food: one word for shop and kitchen
  • el menú
    set menu
    With the accent on the ú. El menú del dia — a fixed three-course lunch at one price, the pride of local bars. The list of dishes is also la carta
  • el cambrer
    waiter
    Feminine: «la cambrera». To call the waiter: «Cambrer, si us plau!»
  • la comanda
    order
    From comandar, to command: an order here is a command. Fer la comanda — to place the order. The verb partner is demanar
  • demanar
    to order
    Ask for and order; what will you have?
  • el plat
    dish
    The entry is plat again — the dish of the day is fish with rice
  • la ració
    portion
    From Latin ratio, a share: a portion here is a share. Una ració de pa — a portion of bread: half or whole, that is how they ask
  • la taula per a dos
    table for two
    Literally "table for two": no special little table. The request of the first minute: una taula per a dos, si us plau
  • les postres
    dessert
    Always plural — the desserts; what do you have?
  • sense carn
    without meat
    Literally without meat; I want a dish without it
  • la propina
    tip
    Deixar propina — to leave a tip. Tips here are small: coins and rounding up the bill
  • la pasta
    pasta
    Feminine and usually singular: menge pasta tres cops per setmana. Do not confuse it with la pasta de dents — that paste cleans teeth
  • el iogurt
    yogurt
    The yogurt; for breakfast I have it with honey
  • la nata
    cream (dairy)
    The cream; I put it on the strawberry pie
  • el gelat
    ice cream
    The iced — the ice cream; the children want it after the beach
  • la xocolata
    chocolate
    The chocolate; a piece with coffee — perfect
  • la galeta
    cookie
    The cookie; she baked some for the children
  • la vedella
    beef
    The first meaning is «heifer», a young cow. At the market it is asked for by weight: «un quilo de vedella»
  • el xai
    lamb
    The lamb; on the grill it is a festive dish
  • les gambes
    prawns
    Only plural — a whole shoal of them. Feminine: una gamba — one shrimp, but who is counting?
  • el raïm
    grapes
    The grape as a whole; from the market it is very sweet
  • el cogombre
    cucumber
    The cucumber; I put it in the salad with the tomato
  • la col
    cabbage
    The cabbage; boiled, with potatoes — a winter dish
  • l'all
    garlic
    Short and strong like its smell; with olive oil it cannot be missing from the kitchen
  • la carbassa
    pumpkin
    Feminine: «la carbassa». Pumpkin soup is «sopa de carbassa»
  • l'albergínia
    eggplant
    The apple of delusion — the eggplant; on the grill with oil and salt
  • la llimona
    lemon
    Feminine. Com una llimona — sour as a lemon: said of faces too. Tea with lemon is te amb llimona
  • la síndria
    watermelon
    The watermelon; in summer it refreshes
  • la maduixa
    strawberry
    The strawberry; with cream, for dessert
  • la pera
    pear
    Feminine and short, like the berry itself. Do not mix it up with la pedra — the stone: one letter, and only one of them can be bitten
  • el préssec
    peach
    With the stress on the é: prés-sec. Do not mix it up with el pèsol — the pea: the stress divides them
  • la recepta del plat
    recipe (of a dish)
    The recipe of the dish; I found it on a website
  • pelar les verdures
    to peel the vegetables
    Peeled the vegetables; first do it and cut them
  • posar a bullir
    to bring to a boil
    Put to boil; bring the water with salt to a boil
  • remenar
    to stir
    Re-mix; stir the soup with a wooden spoon
  • posar sal
    to salt
    Literally "to put salt": the same sal. The standing advice: prova-ho abans de posar sal — taste before salting
  • escalfar
    to reheat
    The same root as «calent», hot. Don’t mix it up with «escalar», to climb: one letter, different summits
  • refredar
    to cool down
    From fred — cold: to cool down and to catch a cold (el refredat) are one word family here, even though English "cold" comes from a different root. A cake is cooled before cutting: deixa refredar el pastís
  • batre els ous
    to beat the eggs
    Batre — to beat: eggs are "beaten" here, as everywhere. Whisked with a fork or a mixer: amb una forquilla o amb la batedora
  • afegir aigua
    to add water
    Add water; a little at a time and stir
  • fer a la brasa
    to grill
    Make embers; in summer we grill vegetables
  • la data de caducitat
    expiration date
    From «caducar», to expire. A yogurt lives until this date — after that, bin it
  • s'ha espatllat
    it has gone off
    It has un-fixed itself — gone bad; the meat has, I can't eat it
  • el pot
    jar
    The jar; buy one of honey at the market
  • el paquet
    pack (of food)
    The entry is the pack — the food kind; a pack of cookies costs two euros
  • l'extra
    extra charge
    The extra; cream with the ice cream is a surcharge
  • per emportar
    takeaway
    Literally for carrying away: from emportar-se, to take along with you. The question at the till: per menjar ací o per emportar? — to eat here or to take away?
  • sense sucre
    without sugar
    Literally without sugar; I want tea without it, please
  • sóc vegetarià
    I'm a vegetarian
    For a woman: sóc vegetariana — gender sits in the ending. The explanation is simple: no menge carn, I do not eat meat. And I eat here is menge: the Valencian giveaway; the central norm says menjo
  • tinc al·lèrgia als fruits secs
    I'm allergic to nuts
    Literally allergy to the dry fruits — nuts; careful, I have it
  • bon profit
    enjoy your meal
    Literally good profit — the bon appétit; lunch is on the table
  • repartir el compte
    to split the bill
    Distribute the bill; at the restaurant we split it among all
  • la dieta
    diet
    The diet; the Mediterranean one is rich in oil and vegetables
  • el menjar greixós
    fatty food
    The greasy food; after the holidays — a month without it
  • posar la taula
    to set the table
    Put the table; before the guests come you must
  • el sopar de festa
    festive supper
    The supper of the feast; at Christmas it lasts till midnight
  • la llaminadura
    candy
    A sweet tooth is «llaminer». «La llaminadura» covers both a toffee and marzipan
  • oferir
    to treat (offer)
    Offer; I want to treat you to a glass of homemade wine
  • el plat típic
    national dish
    The typical dish; every region has its own and defends it with pride
  • el menjar de carrer
    street food
    Literally food of the street; at the big city feast it all smells at once
  • immadur
    unripe
    Literally not-ripe: the prefix im- works like English un-
  • podrit
    rotten
    What fruit becomes when it waits too long. From podrir, to rot
  • salat
    salty
    About taste only. Do not mix with salat, the Valencian coastal dish of potatoes
  • sense sal
    bland
    Literally without salt — what food tastes like before it is seasoned
  • picant
    spicy
    From picar, to sting — the kind of heat that bites
  • greixós
    fatty
    From greix, fat or grease. The entry is the adjective greixós
  • magre
    lean
    About meat: lean. About a person: thin. Magre i alt — thin and tall
  • el porc
    pork
    The animal is the same word: el porc — the pig
  • el pollastre
    chicken (meat)
    Masculine: po-LYAS-tre. A live laying hen is «la gallina»: don’t mix them up at the market
  • l'ànec
    duck (meat)
    The bird and the dish. The accent marks the stress: À-nec
  • la carn picada
    minced meat
    Literally chopped meat: picada from picar, to chop
  • el pernil
    ham
    The salted leg — pernil salat is the local answer to the Spanish jamón
  • la salsitxa
    sausage
    Feminine: sal-SI-cha. On the grill — «a la brasa»: tastier that way
  • la tonyina
    tuna
    A Mediterranean staple, often in oil: tonyina en oli
  • el salmó
    salmon
    Masculine, stress at the end: sal-MOH. El salmó fumat — smoked: on toast and at holidays
  • la gamba
    shrimp
    The sea's small gift; gambes al salt — shrimp tossed in the pan
  • el marisc
    seafood
    Literally the sea's shells — the whole shelf of shellfish in one word
  • la pruna
    plum
    The tree is the pruner. Dried, it becomes a prune — a raisin's plum cousin
  • el gerd
    raspberry
    A soft word for the soft fruit; gerd x is gredos in the plural
  • el meló
    melon
    Summer in one word; meló de vapour — the round winter melon
  • la magrana
    pomegranate
    Literally the seeded apple: magrana hides the Latin granatum. The suffix -ana tells fruit from the stone
  • la pinya
    pineapple
    Literally a pinecone — the same image English once used
  • la mandarina
    mandarin
    The small winter orange; a Valencia winter classic in the fruit bowl
  • el kiwi
    kiwi (fruit)
    A loanword, pronounced as spelled: KI-wi
  • l'alvocat
    avocado
    The article shrinks before the vowel: l'alvocat. Ripe means tou — soft to the touch
  • les panses
    raisins
    Always plural — dried grapes come in bunches. Pa amb panses i pinyons is an old fasting bread
  • la figa
    fig
    The fig tree is the figuera; August figs are the sweetest
  • el pebrot
    pepper (vegetable)
    The vegetable pepper; the hot spice is the pebre. The -ot ending is a Valencian diminutive
  • el carbassó
    zucchini
    A diminutive of carbassa, the big pumpkin — so a zucchini is a little pumpkin
  • la remolatxa
    beetroot
    The sweet root of the vegetable garden; remolatxa amb allioli is a village dish
  • el rave
    radish
    Masculine, short: RRA-ve. «Els raves» — a bunch: with salt, a classic
  • les herbes
    fresh herbs
    Always plural — the bunch you chop into a soup. Herbes de la terra are the local mix
  • l'anet
    dill
    The herb that goes with fish; the article shrinks: l'anet
  • el julivert
    parsley
    Masculine: ju-li-VERT. It grows in every pot on the balcony
  • el gingebre
    ginger
    A loanword with a soft g before i: jin-JEB-reh
  • el blat de moro
    corn
    Literally Moorish wheat — the grain that came across the sea
  • els espinacs
    spinach
    Always plural, as the English once said spinaches
  • el panet
    bread roll
    The morning roll, the diminutive of pa, bread: pa-NET. Un panet amb tomaca — breakfast with tomato
  • la coca
    pie
    The flat sweet of every festivity — coca de llardons, coca de sant Joan. Not to be mixed with the drink
  • el pastisset
    pastry
    A little cake; the -et is a diminutive. Pastissets de moniato — sweet-potato pastries
  • el bunyol
    doughnut
    The fair treat, fried in front of you — bunyols de vent at the Falles
  • la rebosteria
    baked goods
    The sweet shop's whole output in one word; reboster is the pastry cook
  • la melmelada
    jam
    Feminine: mel-me-LA-da. Plum and apricot are the classics
  • el xarop
    syrup
    The sherbet relative — sugar and fruit cooked down
  • les crispetes
    popcorn
    Feminine and usually plural: «les crispetes». No film without them
  • les patates xips
    potato chips
    Potatoes plus xips, from the English chip — always plural; a bag for the party
  • el xiclet
    chewing gum
    Masculine: chee-KLET, the diminutive of xicle, the sapodilla sap. Mastegar xiclet — to chew gum. La xicra is something else: a cup for hot chocolate
  • la llimonada
    lemonade
    Spelled with ll, like la llimona; summer in a glass
  • l'aigua mineral
    mineral water
    Bottled, from a spring. Ask for sense gas — still — or amb gas
  • l'aigua amb gas
    sparkling water
    Literally water with gas — the fizz spelled out
  • el còctel
    cocktail
    The accent marks the stress: còctel. Evening terraces are built on them
  • el cacau
    cocoa
    The drink and the powder; Valencian children are raised on cacau amb llet
  • la bossa de té
    tea bag
    Literally a bag of tea: la bossa is the bag you carry shopping in too
  • l'aigua bullent
    boiling water
    From bullir, to boil — water straight off the flame
  • l'alcohol
    alcohol
    The substance and the drink's strength; sense alcohol is alcohol-free
  • la beguda
    beverage
    Any drink in the abstract: begudes fresques — cold drinks
  • esmorzar
    to have breakfast
    The verb form of the morning meal; esmorzar de forquilla — a fork breakfast, a proper one
  • dinar
    to have lunch
    To have lunch here is «di-NAR». «El dinar» — lunch: the main meal of the day, around two o’clock
  • sopar
    to have supper
    The evening meal, late by northern standards: around nine or ten
  • l'aperitiu
    a snack
    The pre-meal ritual: olives, almonds, a small drink. Abbreviated to l'aperitiu
  • la fam
    hunger
    Hunger is had, not felt: tinc fam — I have hunger
  • la set
    thirst
    The same had-not-felt pattern: tinc set
  • l'hora de dinar
    lunch break
    Literally the hour of lunch — the fixed midday pause, roughly two to three
  • tinc fam
    I'm hungry
    Literally I have hunger: the body's states are things you have
  • tinc set
    I'm thirsty
    Literally I have thirst — the same tener pattern as Spanish
  • ja n'he tingut prou
    I'm full
    Literally I have already had enough of it — the n' is the swallowed pronoun for of it
  • el congelador
    freezer
    The entry is the freezer compartment; peas and pizza live in it
  • la cafetera
    coffee maker
    The coffee machine; it smells of fresh coffee at seven
  • el recipient hermètic
    container
    Literally the hermetic recipient; I keep soup in it
  • el bol
    mixing bowl
    The bowl — an English word in the kitchen; I beat eggs in the big one
  • el platet
    saucer
    The little plate; put the glass on it, please
  • la tassa
    mug
    The entry is the cup again — now the mug; my favorite is blue and old
  • la copa
    wine glass
    The stemmed glass; two for the cava are missing from the table
  • l'esponja
    sponge
    The sponge; in the kitchen it is always wet
  • la pinça de roba
    clothespin
    Literally the clothes grip; it also closes the cookie bag
  • posar la tetera al foc
    to put the kettle on
    Literally to put the kettle on the fire; ten minutes and we have tea
  • els fideus
    noodles
    fee-DEH-oos — thin pasta strands, they cook in three minutes. La fideuà — a paella with noodles, the pride of the coast
  • la mantega
    butter
    mahn-TEH-ga — made of milk, melts on warm bread. Margarine is la margarina; mantega is the honest butter
  • l'oli de gira-sol
    sunflower oil
    Literally oil of turn-to-the-sun; for frying it smells less
  • la massa
    dough
    The dough; the pizza's rests an hour
  • les farinetes
    porridge
    Always plural; in winter we have it with honey for breakfast
  • els flocs
    flakes
    The flakes — of oats; put them in the hot milk
  • les llenties
    lentils
    Always plural; they need a lot of water and patience
  • el cigró
    chickpeas
    The chickpea; soak it overnight — the base of the local stew
  • l'ametlla
    almond
    The almond; the Christmas nougat is full of it
  • el cacauet
    peanut
    The little cocoa-sounding nut; salted ones with the beer
  • l'espècia
    spice
    The single spice; buy them by weight, it comes out cheaper
  • el condiment
    seasoning
    The seasoning; this one has herbs from the garden
  • el vinagre
    vinegar
    The vinegar; a couple of drops wakes the salad up
  • la salsa
    sauce
    Sauce: the liquid part of a dish. La salsa de tomaca is tomato sauce; tomaca is the Valencian word for tomato
  • el quètxup
    ketchup
    Spelled the Valencian way: quètxup; the child asks for it even with pasta
  • la maionesa
    mayonnaise
    The mayonnaise; homemade has oil, egg and a little lemon
  • la mostassa
    mustard
    The mustard; a little of it accompanies the sausage
  • la canyella
    cinnamon
    The cinnamon; the crema catalana is nothing without it
  • el pebre negre
    black pepper
    Literally the black spice; grind it right before serving
  • el brou
    broth
    The broth; grandma boils chicken broth when somebody has a cold
  • la gerra
    jug
    JEH-rra — with a handle and a spout. Una gerra d'aigua fresca stands at the center of every summer table
  • el termos
    thermos
    The thermos, with a final s: el termos; in the forest it still keeps the coffee hot
  • la sucrera
    sugar bowl
    The sugar bowl, feminine: la sucrera, from el sucre; fill the empty one in the morning
  • els coberts
    cutlery
    From «cobrir», to cover, to lay the table: knife, fork and spoon together. «Un joc de coberts» — a cutlery set
  • la cullereta
    teaspoon
    The little spoon; stir the coffee with it
  • la cullera sopera
    tablespoon
    The soup spoon — la cullera sopera; add one of oil to the paella
  • la canyeta
    drinking straw
    The little cane; the child drinks orange juice through it
  • la graella
    grill
    The grill; fish on it needs little oil
  • l'aperitiu
    appetizer
    The entry is the aperitif again — now the food; olives before lunch
  • la guarnició
    side dish
    The garnish; the fish comes with potatoes and pepper
  • frit
    fried
    Fried; eggs with potatoes make a quick lunch
  • bullit
    boiled
    Boiled; a hard-boiled egg takes ten minutes
  • assecat
    dried
    Dried; sun-dried tomatoes are sweet and salty at once
  • congelat
    frozen
    It sleeps in the freezer until needed. Pèsols congelats — the rescue of every cook
  • a punt
    ready (of a dish)
    At the point — done; lunch is ready, wash your hands
  • natural
    natural
    Natural; we prefer juice without added sugar
  • carregat
    strong (of tea)
    Loaded — of tea; the strong mountain tea wakes everyone
  • casolà
    homemade
    Of the house — homemade; grandma's cooking is beyond comparison
  • la pell
    peel (zest)
    The entry is the skin — now the peel; add a little grated lemon zest
  • el pinyol
    pit (of fruit)
    The pit; the children spit the watermelon pips onto the plate

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How it sounds in a sentence

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What is worth knowing about these words

el cafè — coffee. Both the drink and the place. The article el tells you the gender — nouns are learned with it, like la taronja.

el te — tea. El te with an accent is tea; te without one is to you. The pair works just like sí and si.

l'aigua — water. A feminine word that takes the el-article squeezed into l': l'aigua. The apostrophe is not decoration, it is required spelling.

el pa — bread. The bakery is the fleca, a word Spanish has nothing like. Pa amb tomaca — bread with tomato — is the country's signature snack.

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Now the other way around: recall the spelling from the meaning. That is harder, and therefore more useful.

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How to learn the set instead of just reading it

A menu, a market, a shop sign, the question “what is this?”. Food is the most frequent subject of the first weeks and the safest excuse to start talking.

A list is read in a minute and forgotten in a day. What works: hide the translation, try to recall, get it wrong — and come back to the same words tomorrow.

Frequently asked

How do you say “coffee” in Valencian?

«el cafè». Both the drink and the place. The article el tells you the gender — nouns are learned with it, like la taronja. It is one of 241 words in the set “food and drink” — the rest are in the table above.

How many food words do you need to start?

The whole set on this page is 241 words, but there is no need to start with all of it: the words you will need in the next few days are enough. Take them a few at a time — five to seven new ones per session.

Is there audio?

Yes, 241 words on this page can be played — click the speaker next to the word. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.

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