Going shopping every day
provides a good opportunity to practise basic Romanian, especially if you want
to develop conversational exchange skills, if you need to buy food and drink.
So today it’s a bunch of food and drink words you’ll be exposed to, in the
hopes that you’ll be quick to acquire functional Romanian.
As usual, we begin
with a series of useful words and expressions:
Brinza=cheese
Cafea=coffee
Carne=meat
Cirnat=sausage
Legume=vegetables
Ou=egg
Piine=bread
Proaspat=fresh
Salata=salad
Sandvis=sandwich
Sare=salt
Suc=juice
Unt=butter
Vin=wine
Now let us use
some of the words and expressions in meaningful sentences:
You can
buy fresh vegetables for a reasonable
price close to the place I live.
Poti sa
cumperi legume proaspete aproape de zona unde locuiesc eu.
A strong
coffee in the morning really gets me going.
O cafea
tare dimineata este intr-adevar revigoranta.
Bread and
butter used to be the staple food in our grandparents’ time.
Pinea cu
unt era mincarea de baza pe vremea bunicilor nostri.
When I was a kid,
my grandmother used to prepare a tomato-and-cheese sandwich for me to take to
school.
Cind eram copil,
bunica imi pregatea un sandvis cu rosii si brinza pe care il luam cu mine la
scoala.