Thread: meals

Originally Posted by Indra

"Я кушаю" is more self-conceited

I don't have this feeling. I think it is strictly your personal opinion. How this phrase is perceived will depend mostly on the context and intonation.

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Very strange indeed. I was taught that кушать wasn't polite at all, and that есть is the proper way to say it. кушать is what kids and babsuhkas say... and mafioso...

Originally Posted by MikeM

I don't have this feeling. I think it is strictly your personal opinion. How this phrase is perceived will depend mostly on the context and intonation.

You're either a kid, or a babushka... or in mafia

About using "кушать" in 1st person:

Официант: Что будете заказывать?
Посетитель: Литр водки, пожалуйста.
О: А что будете кушать?
П: Вот её, родимую, и буду кушать.

Other than that, I am with Indra on this point. "Я кушаю" sounds incredibly silly when used by an adult. In fact, I don't think I ever heard an adult native Russian saying this seriously, without irony.

Кушать it sounds more softly and warm , but please never say кушать ланч either кушать обед , it sounds silly and funy . You can either кушать or обедать or есть.

How about я ем ланч?

you can say я ем ланч , я ем обед. but it sounds not like russian. Russian people usualy prefer to say я обедаю or я ем . Ланч it is not russian word so they start to use it only several years ago . But anyway people would understand what do you mean .