ReadingA17 min
Basic foods
The everyday French food vocabulary — what's on the table, on the menu, at the market.
Vocabulaire
- le painbread
- le fromagecheese
- la viandemeat
- le poissonfish
- les légumesvegetables
- les fruitsfruits
- l'eauwater (f.)
- le vinwine
Article shifts: « du / de la / des »
When you eat « some » of an uncountable food, French uses the partitive: « du pain » (some bread, m.), « de la viande » (f.), « des légumes » (pl.).
- I eat bread and cheese.
- I drink water.
Sample exercise
Complete: « Je mange ___ pain. »
Je mange ___ pain.
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