Kanál
Kanál
Meaning:
spoon
Pronunciation:
Memory hook:
The legend says that the Panama CHANNEL was dug with spoons.
Example sentences:
Két kanállal habzsolom az életet.
I’m eating life with two spoons. (I.e. I’m a hedonist.)
[Two spoons-with eat-I the life.]
Tájföldön általában kanállal és villával esznek, míg mi késhez és villához vagyunk szokva.
In Thailand they usually eat with a spoon and a fork while we’re used to eating with a knife and a fork.
[Thailand-on usually spoon-with and fork-with eat-they, while we knife-to and fork-to are used.]
Related terms:
villa – fork
kés – knife
olló – scissors
kanalazik – to spoon (i.e. to eat with a spoon). To “spoon” with your partner would be “kiskifli-nagykifli” (“big croissant-small-croissant)
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