Lesson 5.1.1 · Comer y beber
🍞 Food & Drink
From the morning tinto to the late-night arepa, this is the vocabulary you'll use at every meal — plus the verbs to order, eat, drink, and cook it.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Meals of the day
Colombians eat four meals: desayuno (breakfast), almuerzo (lunch — the biggest), algo (afternoon snack), and cena/comida (dinner). 'La comida' confusingly means both 'food' and 'the dinner meal'.
breakfast
lunch
supper
food / dinner / meal
to eat
to cook
hungry
Locals usually say 'tengo hambre'.
Example sentences
Necesito el desayuno, por favor.
I need the breakfast, please.
¿Dónde está el almuerzo?
Where is the lunch?
Me gusta la cena.
I like the supper.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el desayuno?
Where is the breakfast?
Me gusta el almuerzo.
I like the lunch.
Drinks
'Tomar' is more common than 'beber' in Colombia for 'to drink'. A 'tinto' is a small black coffee — not red wine.
to drink
drink
water
coffee
tea
juice
milk
beer
wine
alcohol
Example sentences
Yo bebo todos los días.
I drink every day.
¿Dónde está la bebida?
Where is the drink?
Me gusta el agua.
I like the water.
Mini-diálogo
¿Quieres beber conmigo?
Do you want to drink with me?
Me gusta la bebida.
I like the drink.
Common foods
Staples you'll see on every table — and the sweets, sandwiches, and street food in between.
bread
rice
meat
egg
cheese
butter
salt
sugar
soup
sandwich
pizza
fries
pancake
cake
cookie
chocolate
ice cream
Example sentences
Necesito el pan, por favor.
I need the bread, please.
¿Dónde está el arroz?
Where is the rice?
Me gusta la carne.
I like the meat.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el pan?
Where is the bread?
Me gusta el arroz.
I like the rice.
More fruits
Adding to the fruits lesson: orange, peach, and apricot.
orange (fruit)
peach
apricot
Example sentences
Necesito la naranja, por favor.
I need the orange (fruit), please.
¿Dónde está el durazno?
Where is the peach?
Me gusta el albaricoque.
I like the apricot.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está la naranja?
Where is the orange (fruit)?
Me gusta el durazno.
I like the peach.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
bread
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
beer
el huevo
la carne
el arroz
la galleta
pizza
Fill the blank
Me gusta el _____.
I like the apricot.
Fill the blank
Me gusta la _____.
I like the supper.
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