🇬🇧🇪🇸 margarine - margarina : English Lesson

Meaning of "margarine" ("margarina"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Margarine is a spread that looks and tastes similar to butter but is made from vegetable oils instead of milk fat. It is often used as a substitute for butter in cooking and baking, and can be spread on bread, toast, or used in recipes. Margarine is known for being a more affordable and sometimes healthier alternative to butter.

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

Dad says margarine is like butter, but I think butter would be insulted by that.

The margarine melted on my pancakes so fast, it looked like a yellow waterfall.

I asked for butter, and they gave me margarine. I felt betrayed.

My little brother thought margarine was ice cream… and let’s just say, he learned a tough lesson.

I used margarine instead of sunscreen, and now I smell like breakfast.

She opened a small tub of margarine and spread margarine on warm toast. He watched as margarine melted at the knife edge. In the pan, she spooned margarine into the pan to fry an egg, and the kitchen filled with a soft scent. The child tasted the toast with margarine, smiled wide, and hugged her.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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