Edible and eatable
I came across those words today and I found them very interesting for learning.
So, edible means something not dangerous for eating.
Eatable means something you enjoy eating and it has eat in it.
Ok, I got it! But when I started practicing it became not so easy. In Russian we have just only one word for those two meanings, so it's going to be quite difficult for me to get it.
Good luck to me :)
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Edible and eatable
I came across those the above words today and I found them very interesting for learning.
So, edible means something that is not dangerous for to eating.
Eatable means something you enjoy eating and it has eat in it (I'm not sure what you mean by 'it has eat in it').
Ok, I got it! But when I started practicing it became was not so easy. In Russian we have just only one word for those two meanings, so it's going to be quite difficult for me to get it.
Good luck to me :)
Great job Anna!
However, informally you can also use edible for something that is safe to eat but that is cooked badly (i.e. is that cookie even edible? - in this case the cookie might be too hard to eat). Edible is more commonly used in informal, conversational English than eatable!
Keep going, you're doing well!
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You are busy !
Mostly you will want "edible". "Eatable" is a word, but I've only ever heard it in a negative way - "I suppose that's just about eatable" - and I haven't heard that very often. Appetising (or with a z for the s in US English), appealing, tasty, even yummy - these are probably more common words for something that you like the look (and savour) of and want to eat.
The only "correction" I can see is one more US / British English spelling thing: "practicing " is good in US English. but has an "s" in BrEng - "practising". Otherwise it all looks good to me.
Enjoy your meal :) Good luck to you :)
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