For breakfast, I eat toasted bread with cheese.
Somalis don't have a word for cheese. This is because traditionally, with camels milk you can't make it. In the south, they use the word 'farmaajo', which comes from the Italian word 'formaggio'. In the north, you can use the English word 'cheese'.
By the way, the word for 'yogurt' in Somali is 'caanafadhi' ('milk that sits')
There is a verb for breakfast as well,
Waan quraacday - I had breakfast
Dadka Soomaaliyeed maxey ku quraacdaan? What do Somalis have for breakfast?
Maxaad ku quraacataa? - What do you have for breakfast?
WHAT YOU WITH HAVE BREAKFAST
In English, we say 'have for breakfast',, but in Somali you say 'What do you have breakfast with?' That's what 'ku' here means. It means 'with'.
Markaad yarayd , maxaad ku quraacan jirtey?
When you were small, what did you used to have for breakfast?
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