Maltese Nouns

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

potatoes patata

tomatoes tadam

onions basal

carrots karrotta

fruits frott

apples tuffieh

bananas banana

oranges laring

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 - Maltese
do you have milk? [verb + noun] ghandek halib?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] ghandi halib u kaf�
he has three apples [number + plural noun] huwa ghandu tliet tuffiehat
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] hi ghandha tuffieha wahda biss
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] ahna nghixu go dar zghira
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] jiena nhobb il-kolazzjon taghna

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

bread hobz

milk halib

butter butir

cheese gobon

coffee kaf�

sandwich sandwic

meat laham

chicken tigieg

fish hut

breakfast kolazzjon

lunch ikla ta' nofsinhar

dinner ikla ta' filghaxija

Conversation in Maltese

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 - Maltese
Do you speak (English/ Maltese)? titkellem (bl-ingliz/ bil-malti)?
Just a little ftit
I like Maltese joghgobni l-malti
Can I practice with you? nista' nipprattika mieghek?
How old are you? kemm ghandek zmien?
I'm thirty three years old jien ghandi 33 sena
It was nice talking to you hadt pjacir nitkellem mieghek

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