Galician Nouns

Welcome to the third Galician lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Galician to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes patacas

tomatoes tomates

onions cebolas

carrots cenorias

fruits froita

apples mazá

bananas bananas

oranges laranxas

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Galician
do you have milk? [verb + noun] ten leite?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] teño leite e café
he has three apples [number + plural noun] ten tres mazás
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] ela só ten unha mazá
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] vivimos nunha casa pequena
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] gústame o noso almorzo

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread pan

milk leite

butter manteiga

cheese queixo

coffee café

sandwich bocadillo

meat carne

chicken polo

fish peixe

breakfast almorzo

lunch xantar

dinner cea

Conversation in Galician

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Galician
Do you speak (English/ Galician)? fala (inglés/galego)?
Just a little un pouquiño
I like Galician gústame o galego
Can I practice with you? podo practicar con vostede?
How old are you? cantos anos ten?
I'm thirty three years old teño 33 anos
It was nice talking to you foi un pracer falar con vostede

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