📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 22 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 5 · La comida — food
Frutas y verduras
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 22 of 30: Fruit and vegetables carry your genders forward: la fruta, la verdura, el plátano, la fresa, el tomate. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la fruta
the fruit
lah FROO-tah
la verdura
the vegetable
lah behr-DOO-rah
el plátano
the banana
ehl PLAH-tah-noh
la fresa
the strawberry
lah FREH-sah
el tomate
the tomato
ehl toh-MAH-teh
la papa
the potato
lah PAH-pah
la ensalada
the salad
lah ehn-sah-LAH-dah
el pescado
the fish (to eat)
ehl pehs-KAH-doh
el pollo
the chicken
ehl POH-yoh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Fruit and vegetables carry your genders forward: la fruta, la verdura, el plátano, la fresa, el tomate, la papa. Papa is the Latin American potato; in Spain you will hear patata.
Y también · And also
Me gustan las fresas pero no me gustan los tomates — opinions, negation and food in one honest sentence. And el pescado is fish on a plate; el pez, from Module 1, is the fish in the water.
Ojo · Watch out
la papa is the potato in Latin America (patata in Spain). And el pescado is fish as food; el pez is the living fish — one creature, two words.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la fruta.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 22 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.