Breakdown of Como un plátano en la mañana.
comer
to eat
en
in / on / at
la mañana
the morning
el plátano
the banana, the plantain
Questions & Answers about Como un plátano en la mañana.
Wait, doesn't como mean "how" or "like"?
It can! Como without an accent mark means "like" or "as", and cómo with an accent mark means "how". But here, como is the "I" form of the verb comer (to eat). You can tell it means "I eat" from the context—you wouldn't say "How a banana in the morning"!
Why isn't the word yo (I) at the beginning of the sentence?
I've learned to say por la mañana for "in the morning". Is en la mañana also correct?
Yes! While por la mañana is taught in many textbooks and used in Spain, en la mañana is perfectly correct and actually much more common in everyday spoken Latin American Spanish.
Is there a difference between un plátano and una banana?
If I wanted to say "I like bananas in the morning", would I use gustan?
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