leche
nounBeginnerHigh frequency
What does “leche” mean in English?
milk
Example sentences
Bebo leche por la mañana.
I drink milk in the morning.
Un café con leche.
A coffee with milk.
La leche está fría.
The milk is cold.
How to use it
Leche means 'milk'. Feminine: la leche. Uncountable. Common collocations: leche con cacao (chocolate milk), café con leche.
Common mistake
Leche is feminine: la leche. Don't say 'el leche'. Same -e ending as nieve (la), gente (la) — most -e nouns are feminine but check.
Topics
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Reference
This entry’s teaching guidance follows A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin & Moreira Rodríguez, Routledge), 1.