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Beginner Spanish · Fruit and market shopping
Fruit in Spanish
Fruit vocabulary becomes much more useful when you can describe what looks ripe, say what you like, ask the price, and buy the amount you need. Start with common fruits, then put them into a simple market conversation.
Your next small win: name common fruits, describe taste and ripeness, say which fruits you like, and buy fruit at a market.
Start with everyday fruit
Common Fruits
These eight fruits give you a useful beginner vocabulary without making the first section too large.
Apple
Banana
Orange
Grapes
Strawberry
Pineapple
Watermelon
Pear
Name three fruits
Say “apple, orange, and strawberries” in Spanish.
Manzana, naranja y fresas.
More fruit vocabulary
Mango
Peach
Cherry
Kiwi
Lemon
Melon
Avocado
Coconut
Regional fruit words
Fruit vocabulary varies across the Spanish-speaking world.
Regional words for banana
Regional words for peach
Regional words for avocado
Choose fruit that looks good
Describing Fruit
These adjectives help you talk about taste, freshness, temperature, and ripeness.
Sweet
Sour / acidic
Fresh
Ripe
Unripe / green
Juicy
Delicious
Cold
Put the descriptions together
The apple is red and sweet.
The watermelon is nice and cold.
This lemon is very sour.
The mango is ripe and juicy.
Agreement: changing adjectives match the fruit being described. For example, el mango maduro but la sandía madura.
Describe a mango
Say that the mango is ripe and juicy.
El mango está maduro y jugoso.
Say which fruit you enjoy
Me Gusta and Me Gustan
The form changes depending on whether the thing you like is singular or plural.
Me gusta + singular
I like watermelon.
I like mango.
Me gustan + plural
I like strawberries.
I like ripe bananas.
Think about the thing you like: one singular thing uses gusta. A plural noun uses gustan.
Talk about a favorite
Say that you like strawberries.
Me gustan las fresas.
Use the vocabulary while shopping
Buying Fruit at the Market
Four useful skills cover a lot of market shopping: ask for an amount, ask the price, check ripeness, and say what you will take.
I would like a kilo of apples, please.
How much are the strawberries?
Are the mangos ripe?
I would like six oranges, please.
Do you have fresh watermelon?
I'll take these grapes.
Price pattern: use singular cuesta with one item and plural cuestan with plural items. Here, las fresas is plural, so the question uses cuestan.
Asking the price
How much are the apples?
They cost two euros per kilo.
Checking ripeness
Are these mangos ripe?
Yes, they're ready to eat.
Talking about favorites
What's your favorite fruit?
I love strawberries.
Buy some fruit
Ask for a kilo of apples, ask whether the mangos are ripe, then say that you will take some grapes.
Quisiera un kilo de manzanas, por favor.
¿Están maduros los mangos?
Me llevo estas uvas.
More fruit in context
We buy fresh strawberries at the market.
The pineapple is very sweet this season.
The ripe mango has a delicious flavor.
We ate green grapes during the picnic.
The cherries are perfect for dessert.
We're going to make a fruit salad.
Your turn · 8 quick questions
Practice: Fruit and the Market
Choose the phrase that fits each situation. Focus on common fruit, taste and ripeness, me gusta / me gustan, and practical market language.
Practice complete
You can describe and buy fruit in Spanish.
A few fruit phrases to revisit
One last step: visit the market without choices.
Choose two fruits. Ask the price of one, ask whether the other is ripe or fresh, then say what you want to buy.
¿Cuánto cuestan las fresas?
¿Están maduros los mangos?
Quisiera un kilo de fresas, por favor.
You want a kilo of apples at the market. What do you say?
- Quisiera un kilo de manzanas, por favor.
- Quisiera seis naranjas, por favor.
- Me llevo estas uvas.
- ¿Cuánto cuestan las manzanas?
Quisiera un kilo de manzanas, por favor asks politely for one kilo of apples.
Quisiera un kilo de manzanas, por favor.
You want to know the price of the strawberries. What do you ask?
- ¿Cuánto cuestan las fresas?
- ¿Están maduras las fresas?
- ¿Tiene fresas frescas?
- ¿Te gustan las fresas?
Because fresas is plural, the price question uses cuestan.
¿Cuánto cuestan las fresas?
You want to know whether the mangos are ripe. What do you ask?
- ¿Están maduros los mangos?
- ¿Están verdes los mangos?
- ¿Están fríos los mangos?
- ¿Están dulces los mangos?
Maduro means ripe. Mangos is masculine plural, so the adjective is maduros.
¿Están maduros los mangos?
You like strawberries. Which sentence has the plural pattern taught in the lesson?
- Me gustan las fresas.
- Me gusta la sandía.
- Me gusta el mango.
- Me encanta la piña.
Las fresas is plural, so the lesson uses me gustan.
Me gustan las fresas.
The watermelon is nice and cold. Which sentence matches?
- La sandía está bien fría.
- La sandía está madura.
- La sandía está dulce.
- La sandía está fresca.
Fría means cold and agrees with the feminine noun sandía.
La sandía está bien fría.
The lemon is very sour. Which adjective completes the idea?
- ácido
- dulce
- maduro
- jugoso
Ácido means sour or acidic. Limón is masculine, so the example uses ácido.
Este limón es muy ácido.
In Spain, which word from the lesson is commonly used for peach?
- melocotón
- durazno
- palta
- banano
Melocotón is commonly used for peach in Spain, while durazno is common in many Latin American countries.
durazno / melocotón = peach
Someone asks your favorite fruit, and you love strawberries. What do you say?
- Me encantan las fresas.
- Me encantan las uvas.
- Me gusta la sandía.
- Me encanta el mango.
Las fresas is plural, so the phrase uses me encantan.
Me encantan las fresas.