🇬🇧 English from 🇪🇸 Spanish (EU) Todas las palabras
milk
/mɪlk/
A1 noun Food & Drink
🇪🇸 Spanish (EU): leche
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Definition

🇬🇧 English
noun

A white liquid produced by cows (and other animals) that is used as a drink and to make products like cheese, butter, and yoghurt.

Definición

🇪🇸 Spanish (EU)

Sustancia líquida de color blanco y de alto valor nutritivo que se produce en las mamas de las hembras de los mamíferos para alimentar a sus crías. Para consumo humano es común emplear la producida por vacas, ovejas, búfalas o cabras.

Grammar Notes

🇬🇧 English

Uncountable noun. Do not say 'a milk'. Say 'some milk', 'a glass of milk', 'a litre of milk'. Common collocations: full-fat milk, skimmed milk, milk chocolate, dairy milk.

Cultural Notes

In Britain, milk is traditionally delivered to homes in glass bottles by a 'milkman'. The phrase 'no use crying over spilt milk' means there is no point worrying about something that has already happened and cannot be fixed.

Example Sentences

The boy drank a glass of milk.

"The boy drank a glass of milk."

🇪🇸 "El niño se bebió un vaso de leche."

He adds milk to the cereal.

"He adds milk to the cereal."

🇪🇸 "Le echa leche a los cereales."

Fill in the Blank 🇬🇧 English

The boy drank a glass of ___.

Practice Quiz

1. How do you correctly ask for milk?
2. Milk is usually produced by:

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