Food / A1

b-uh-NAHN-uh/bəˈnɑːnə/

Long, yellow, and easy to peel — a banana is a fruit you can eat on the bus or after sport. It is countable: a banana, two bananas. Green bananas are not ready; yellow ones are. Banana and apple are both fruit, but the shape and taste are different.

Meaning

A long yellow fruit.

Examples

• “She ate a banana after school.”
• “I packed a banana for lunch.”
• “These bananas are still green.”

Good to know

a banana / bananas. Unripe = green; ready = yellow.

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