Spanish story with translation · A1 · 12 lines
¡Comed con nosotros! Eat with us! (to several people)
Comic · 6 panels
Hola, Pablo y Lucía. Estoy en casa de mis padres.
Hi, Pablo and Lucía. I'm at my parents' house.
Mi madre cocina muy bien y hoy hay comida para todos.
My mother cooks very well, and today there's food for everyone.
Hay pollo con arroz, una ensalada y pan.
There's chicken with rice, a salad and bread.
A mi padre le encanta el pollo, y a mis hermanos les gusta más el pescado.
My father loves chicken, and my brothers like fish more.
Yo bebo agua, pero ellos beben mucha leche.
I drink water, but they drink a lot of milk.
Hay fruta y chocolate. El chocolate es malo para mí, pero me encanta.
There's fruit and chocolate. Chocolate is bad for me, but I love it.
¿Y vosotros? ¿Os gusta el pescado con patatas?
And you? Do you like fish with potatoes? (to several people)
A nosotros nos gusta la leche con un poco de azúcar.
We like milk with a little sugar.
Mañana hay desayuno en casa de mis padres. ¡Comed con nosotros!
Tomorrow there's breakfast at my parents' house. Eat with us! (to several people)
Hay pan con aceite, huevos, un kilo de manzanas y una botella de leche.
There's bread with oil, eggs, a kilo of apples and a bottle of milk.
Pablo, ¿comes huevos con sal? ¡Yo sí!
Pablo, do you eat eggs with salt? I do!
¡Hasta mañana! Marta
See you tomorrow! Marta
Grammar for this text
Who likes it: le, les, nos, os
- A mi padre le encanta el pollo — "my father loves chicken". Spanish keeps the short word le (to him) even though a mi padre is already there. This short word before the verb is required: le — (to) him or her, les — (to) them, nos — (to) us, os — (to) you (plural). The part with a (a mi padre, a mis hermanos, A nosotros) only makes clear or stresses who.
- ¿Os gusta el pescado con patatas? — a question to two friends: "Do you like...?"
En casa de mis padres
- Estoy en casa de mis padres — "I'm at my parents' house": en casa de + someone means "at someone's place". Casa has no article here.
Talking about tomorrow: hay
- Mañana hay desayuno — word for word "tomorrow there is breakfast": Spanish uses the present tense for tomorrow, and the word mañana makes the time clear.
An invitation: comed
- ¡Comed con nosotros! — "Eat with us!" This is a command form: it's used to invite or to ask. Marta is writing to two friends she calls tú, so she uses the vosotros command: take the infinitive and change the final -r to -d: comer → comed (stress on the last syllable). It works for every verb: beber → bebed. You'll learn these forms properly at level A2.
How much: mucha leche, un kilo de manzanas
- beben mucha leche — mucha ends in -a because leche is feminine.
- Amounts and containers are joined to the food with de: un kilo de manzanas, una botella de leche, un poco de azúcar — like English "a kilo of", "a bottle of".
Para mí
- El chocolate es malo para mí — "chocolate is bad for me": after a preposition, "me" is mí.
Words and grammar of the unit: Decide what to cook for dinner.
Learn the words from the texts with flashcards
In the app, you can tap any word in a text to see its translation, forms and examples, and new words stick with flashcards. 15 minutes a day.
Start for freeEverything is open for free. No card needed to sign up.