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How do you say "food store" in Mexican Spanish?
abarrotes
In Mexican Spanish, "food store" is abarrotes.
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Pronunciation
ah-bahr-ROH-tehs. Three syllables, stress on the second.
Grammar notes
Abarrotes is masculine plural. This is a specific Mexican term for a small grocery store.
Example sentence
Compro el pan en la tienda de abarrotes.
I buy bread at the food store.
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How to remember abarrotes
Abarrotes is used across Mexico for the neighborhood food stores you see everywhere.
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Questions about abarrotes
How do you say "food store" in Mexican Spanish?
In Mexican Spanish, "food store" is abarrotes. It is a noun.
How is abarrotes written in Mexican Spanish?
abarrotes is written using the standard Mexican Spanish script.
How is abarrotes used in a sentence?
Use abarrotes as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: Compro el pan en la tienda de abarrotes. (I buy bread at the food store.).
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"Food store" in other languages
- Japanese 食料品店 (shokuryōhinten)
- Korean 식료품점 (siklyopumjeom)
- Chinese 食品店 (shí pǐn diàn)
- Spanish tienda de alimentación
- French le magasin d'alimentation
- German das Lebensmittelgeschäft
- Italian il negozio di alimentari
- Russian продуктовый магазин (produktovyj magazin)
- Greek κατάστημα τροφίμων (katastima trofimon)
- Arabic محل أكل (mahala 'ukul)
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