Quick answer
Corta la cebolla muy fina.
Chop the onion very finely. Recipes use the plain command form, so corta, añade, mezcla.
The words
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| la cocina | the kitchen |
| la sartén | the frying pan |
| la olla | the pot |
| el cuchillo | the knife |
| la cuchara | the spoon |
| el tenedor | the fork |
| el plato | the plate |
| el vaso | the glass |
| la nevera | the fridge |
| el horno | the oven |
| la receta | the recipe |
| la cebolla | the onion |
| cocinar | to cook |
| cortar | to cut |
| freír | to fry |
The phrases you will actually say
Worth knowing
A Spanish recipe is written in the tú command form, so you meet verbs stripped to their bare stem: corta, pela, añade, remueve, deja reposar. Watch the ones that go irregular in that form, since poner becomes pon and hacer becomes haz. Two words are false friends at the table: el vaso is a drinking glass, never a vase, and la copa is the stemmed glass you use for wine, so ordering una copa in a bar means a glass of wine or a spirit. Appliance names split by region: Spain says la nevera, Mexico el refrigerador and the Southern Cone la heladera. And la sartén is feminine in Spain but you will hear el sartén across much of Latin America.
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