have you eaten

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

have you eaten?

1. Depending on the speaker's language/culture, may be a greeting roughly equivalent to "how are you"

Translations

have you eaten?

• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 你吃飽沒／你吃饱没 (dí-chia̍h-pá-bue) (Philippine Hokkien)

  Mandarin: 你吃飯了吗 (nǐ chīfàn le ma)

• Ilocano: nangan kan?
• Kapampangan: mengan na ka wari?
• Polish: Jadłeś już? (informal, to a man), Jadłaś już? (informal, to a woman), Jedliście już? (infromal, to mixed genders or to men only), Jadłyście już? (informal, to women), Jadł pan już? (formal, to a man), Jadła pani już? (formal, to a woman), Jedli panowie już? (fromal, to men only), Jadły panie już? (formal, to women), Jadliście państwo już? (formal, to mixed genders) The word 'już' - 'already' is put here to overcome ambiguity.
• Tagalog: kumain ka na ba? (standard), nakain ka na ga? (dialectal)
• Thai: คุณกินข้าวแล้วหรือยัง
• Vietnamese: ăn cơm chưa?