Going shopping

Eugen Nasta, 21.07.2019, 13:55

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.