Learn Spanish (Spain): Yo como el pan y tú comes el queso. - I eat the bread and you eat the cheese.

Yo como el pan y tú comes el queso.

I eat the bread and you eat the cheese.

Breakdown of Yo como el pan y tú comes el queso.

to eat; to have lunch

Questions & Answers about Yo como el pan y tú comes el queso.

Why does the word for eat change from como to comes?

In Spanish, regular verbs change their endings depending on who is doing the action. The base verb here is comer (to eat). For yo (I), you drop the -er ending and add -o to make como. For tú (you, informal), you drop the -er and add -es to make comes.

Do I always have to use yo and tú before the verbs?

No, it is usually optional! Because como always means I eat and comes always means you eat, you could just say como el pan y comes el queso. However, keeping yo and tú in this sentence is a great way to emphasize the contrast: I am eating this, and you are eating that.

Why does tú have an accent mark on the letter u?

The written accent mark helps distinguish between two short words that sound exactly the same. Tú (with the accent) is the subject pronoun meaning you. Tu (without the accent) means your, as in your cheese.

Do we need el if we just mean I eat bread in general?

If you are talking about eating some bread in general, you would leave the article out and simply say yo como pan. In this sentence, because we use the definite articles el pan and el queso, the speaker is referring to a specific loaf of bread and a specific piece of cheese.