Food and Drink vocabulary Comida e Bebida
17 Portuguese words on the topic of food and drink — with pictures, audio recordings and example sentences. The foundation of the table.
| Picture | English | Portuguese · Português | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | food | a comida | 🔗 RootFrom the verb comer (to eat). |
 | water | a água | Stressed on the first syllable: Á-gua. |
 | bread | o pão | Irregular plural: pão → pães. |
 | milk | o leite | Classic pairing: café com leite. |
 | coffee | o café | Also means 'café'; in Brazil the cafezinho (little coffee) is offered everywhere. |
 | tea | o chá | 🔗 RootFrom Chinese chá — unlike English 'tea', which took the other Chinese route. |
 | juice | o suco | Brazilian word. 🇵🇹 Portugalin Portugal juice is sumo. |
 | meat | a carne | Covers both 'meat' and 'flesh'. |
 | chicken | o frango | frango is chicken as food; galinha is the hen. |
 | fish | o peixe | The x sounds like 'sh': PAY-shuh. |
 | rice | o arroz | 🔗 RootFrom Arabic ar-ruzz with the article attached — hence the arr-. |
 | egg | o ovo | The vowel shifts in the plural: ovo (closed o) → ovos (open o). |
 | cheese | o queijo | The j is like the s in 'measure': KAY-zhoo. |
 | fruit | a fruta | Edible fruit; the botanical or figurative fruit is o fruto. |
 | vegetable | o legume | False friend: English legume means beans and pulses; o legume is any vegetable. |
 | apple | a maçã | The ã is nasal: roughly 'mah-SAHN'; note the ç. |
 | sugar | o açúcar | 🔗 RootFrom Arabic as-sukkar — the same root as 'sugar'. |