Dechidir kualo gizar
Deciding what to cook
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Komidas - Foods
koftes/keftes = meatballs or patties
pishkado = fish
avas = beans
gayna = chicken
makarón = pasta
berendjena = eggplant
arroz/pilav = rice
salata = salad
vedruras/zarzavat = vegetables
patatas = potatoes
borekas/burekas = stuffed pastry
Enshemplo/Example
PERSONA A
Kualo gizaremos esta noche?
What should we cook tonight?
PERSONA B
Te plaze koftes?
(Do) you like meatballs?
PERSONA A
Mmm, no me plaze muncho.
Hmm, I don’t really like (that).
PERSONA B
Alora podemos/puedemos azer pishkado?
So we could make fish?
PERSONA A
Si, buena idea. Azeremos pishkado i una salata.
Yes, good idea. Let’s make fish and a salad.
PERSONA B
Ya tenemos pishkado, ma kale ke merkemos zarzavat.
We already have fish, but we need to buy vegetables.
PERSONA A
OK, puedo ir a merkar mas tadre.
Okay, I can go shopping later.
PERSONA B
Perfekto, mersi!
Perfect, thank you!
Komentaryos/Notes
This domain is based on conversations between Eliezer Bivas and Nesi Altaras (grandfather and grandson), and Izzet Bana and Nesi Altaras, all speakers from Istanbul. It was edited by Rachel Bortnick (Izmir).
Borekas: borekas and burekas are both ways to call the delicious (we are not objective!) savory, flaky, and stuffed pastry which has become iconic of Sephardic cuisine. It comes from the Turkish börek.
borekas is more common in Istanbul.
burekas is more common in Izmir and Salonika.
To like/to be pleasing: plazer and agradar are both verbs with the meaning 'to be pleasing.'
plazer is more common in Istanbul.
agradar is more common in Izmir.
It is grammatically correct to conjugate these verbs in the plural when the subject is plural (i.e. Te plazen koftes?), but colloquially it's more common to keep plaze or agrada in the singular even with plural nouns (i.e. Te plaze koftes?).
"Azeremos"
Notice that in Ladino, we use the second personal plural future tense (literally "we will ____") to mean "let's _____!"
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