🇬🇧🇪🇸 potato - papa : English Lesson

Meaning of "potato" ("papa"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A potato is a chubby, brown underground vegetable that grows on a plant’s roots. When you pull it out of the soil and wash it, you can cook it in lots of yummy ways, like mashed potatoes, French fries, baked potatoes, or potato chips.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I put eyes and a mustache on my potato and now it looks more responsible than I am.

I tried to draw a superhero, but it looked like a potato wearing a cape.

Mom said, “Use your brain,” so I asked if I could borrow the potato, because it looked smarter than me today.

I tried to juggle a potato, an apple, and an orange; now I have a dented potato and a new house rule.

The potato stared at me from my plate like, “You wouldn’t dare,” and then I ate it.

He digs in the garden and finds a potato under the ground. The potato is round and brown and dirty. He washes the potato, cuts it to fry, bakes one more potato, and mashes another potato with milk. He eats a warm potato and smiles. His little sister jumps and claps for the food.

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This word is at the A1 level, which means it is one of the first words you learn when starting English. It’s commonly used in everyday conversations and helps you communicate basic ideas like greetings, family, or daily activities.

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