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Como papas y pan.

Como papas y pan.
I eat potatoes and bread.
From Lesson 7:Making nouns plural (-s, -es)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Como papas y pan.

How do we make the word for potato plural in this sentence?
The singular word for potato is papa. Since it ends in a vowel, you simply add an -s to the end to make it plural, giving us papas.
If I wanted to talk about multiple types of bread, how would I make pan plural?
The word pan ends in a consonant. In Spanish, to make a noun ending in a consonant plural, you must add -es. So, the plural of pan would be panes.
Wait, doesn't papa mean dad?
It depends on the written accent mark! Papa with no accent means potato. Papá with an accent on the last letter means dad, and its plural is papás. As a fun fact, papa is the standard word for potato in Latin America, while in Spain you will often hear patata instead.
Why doesn't the sentence start with yo for I?
In Spanish, the ending of the verb usually tells you who is doing the action. The verb como ends in -o, which signals that I am doing the eating. Because the verb already makes it clear, you do not need to include the pronoun yo unless you want to add special emphasis.

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