Breakdown of Como pan con jamón.
Questions & Answers about Como pan con jamón.
Doesn't como mean 'like' or 'how'? Why does it mean 'I eat' here?
It can mean all of those things! Como is the 'I' form of the verb comer (to eat), but it is also the word for 'like' or 'as'. You can tell it means 'I eat' here because there is no other action happening in the sentence, and it is followed by food. Why is there no word for 'I' before como?
In Spanish, the ending of the verb usually tells you who is doing the action. Because como ends in -o, it already means 'I eat'. Adding yo to say yo como is perfectly fine, but native speakers usually leave it out unless they want to add extra emphasis. Why isn't there a word like el or un before pan?
Just like in English, when you are talking about a general, uncountable amount of food ('bread' rather than 'the bread' or 'a loaf of bread'), you leave the article out. You are simply saying you eat bread with ham. Why does jamón have an accent mark?
The accent mark shows you where to put the strongest spoken emphasis. It tells you to pronounce it ha-MOHN. Without that written accent mark, the normal rules of Spanish pronunciation would automatically make you stress the first syllable instead. Learn Como pan con jamón and more in Spanish
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