📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 23 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 5 · La comida — food
Las bebidas — drinks
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 23 of 30: Water, milk, juice: el agua, la leche, el jugo. On this page: 10 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
el aguafeminine — takes el before its stressed a, like el agua
the water
ehl AH-gwah
la leche
the milk
lah LEH-cheh
el jugo de naranja
the orange juice
ehl HOO-goh deh nah-RAHN-hah
el café
the coffee / the café
ehl kah-FEH
el té
the tea
ehl TEH
el chocolate caliente
the hot chocolate
ehl choh-koh-LAH-teh kah-LYEHN-teh
la bebida
the drink
lah beh-BEE-dah
tengo sed
I am thirsty
TEHN-goh SEHD
frío
cold (m)
FREE-oh
fría
cold (f)
FREE-ah
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
Water, milk, juice: el agua, la leche, el jugo. The grown-up pair: el café, el té. The treat: el chocolate caliente. Jugo is the Latin American juice — Spain says zumo.
Y también · And also
El agua is feminine in disguise: it takes el only because it starts with a stressed a — el agua fría, las aguas. Learn it as la-that-wears-el. Tengo sed — I am thirsty; you HAVE thirst, like age.
Ojo · Watch out
el agua takes el but is feminine: el agua fría, never el agua frío. Thirst is HAD: tengo sed, never soy sed.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el agua.
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 23 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.