Food and drink in Valencian

241 words Valencian words 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

How it sounds in a sentence

A word list is a blank. Conversation is made of sentences, and these are the ones the words fit into most often.

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

Test yourself

First by ear — the way you will meet the word in conversation. Click the speaker and pick the translation.

What is this word?
It is el cafè — coffee.
What is this word?
It is la fruita — fruit.
What is this word?
It is bo — tasty.
What is this word?
It is mastegar — to chew.
What is this word?
It is la farina — flour.

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

How do you say “coffee” in Valencian?
Both the drink and the place. The article el tells you the gender — nouns are learned with it, like la taronja
How do you say “fruit” in Valencian?
A collective, so it stays singular: m'agrada la fruita — I like fruit. One piece is una fruita
How do you say “tasty” in Valencian?
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
How do you say “to chew” in Valencian?
Chew well — the grandmother's word at the table
How do you say “flour” in Valencian?
The flour; bread is made of it, water and salt

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.

Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many times
Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
This holds not only in experiments but in ordinary classrooms, with real students.checked many times
Mawson & Kang, 2025, Behavioral Sciences 15(6):771 · 22 studies, d = 0.54 (confidence interval 0.31–0.77). The authors warn that individual studies disagree widely.

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?

A dozen is enough. The set of 241 words on this page covers nearly every everyday case on the topic — but it is best taken a few at a time, not all at once.

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.

Food and drink in Valencian

241 words on the topic

How it sounds in a sentence

What is worth knowing about these words

Test yourself

How to learn the set instead of just reading it

Frequently asked

How do you say “coffee” in Valencian?

How many food words do you need to start?

Is there audio?

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