Friday 17 June 2016

Marhasna 5 (measures and containers)

Here are some weights and measures (old and new) used for fresh foods (also, of course, used for preserved food and other materials). Since they are used with numbers you do not usually need to know the plurals.

gram
gram
kilogram
kilogram
ouns
ounce
qwarter
quarter
peuns (poos)
pound (weight)
men poos
stone
canspoos
hundredweight
tonnas
ton

Me a bernas pajar gram a safòrn.

I bought 4g of saffron.
Me a venja pemp kilogram a lavalow.
I would like 5kg of apples.
Ma odhom dhebm a üdn men poos a dettis.
I need 1st of potatoes.

Foods with longer shelf lives come in all sorts of packaging; here are some examples:
fardel a de
a packet of tea
pot a vel
a pot of honey
jorrik a jam
a jar of jam
botel a win
a bottle of wine
kisten a ys
a box of cereal
sten a fav
a tin of beans
canna a domatys devenys
a can of chopped tomatoes
piben a dos kennin
a tube of garlic paste
linen a onyon
a string of onions
sagh a durnyp
a sack of turnips


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