a cup of coffee vs. a coffee cup
Google gives same thing for both of these:
a cup of coffee : una taza de café
a coffee cup : una taza de café
If I want to say "Would you like a cup of coffee?" I don't want to say "Would you like a coffee cup?"
So how would I say that correctly?
Thank you
6 Answers
Hi, Rachael. It would be:
¿Te qustaría una taza de café?
or
¿Te gustaría un café?
I agree with Marianne's second choice. I have never, in Mexico, heard or used "Una taza de café." This doesn´t sound natural. It´s always "Un café," "Un café capuchino," Un café con leche," etc.
Some things taken for granted can be so entertaining when inspected too closely.
una taza de café
will ,from now on, bring to my mind a cup made out of coffee!
Since simply frozen coffee won't work for holding a hot liquid, you would have to create some sort of paste from the mashed beans, form them, and then fire it in a kiln. Imagine how good that job would smell?
Not exactly the picture I had in mind, but definitely una taza de café
In spain we use both ways of saying it, interchangeably. If I wanted to ask someone if they wanted to have a cup of coffee I would either say: ¿Quieres una taza de café? or ¿Quieres un café?. Both are just as correct. And yes, both "cup of coffee" and "coffee cup" are translated as "taza de café", but I've never had any problem with that tbh.
¿Te gustaría un café?.- Would you like a coffee?
¿Te gustaría una taza de café?.- Would you like a cup of coffee?
¿Te gustaría una taza de café?.- Would you like a coffee cup?
I am afraid that the best way not to make confusion it is to say "¿te gustaría un café? but if the context it is clear, you also can say: ¿te gustaría una taza de café? (would you like a cup of coffee?). But I must admit that Marianne's answer is very good. My point for her.
" Coffee cup" is the object you drink it from. La taza hecho por tomando un cafe. A "tea cup" is the object you drink tea from.
"A cup of coffee" is, for example, un café con leche o puede ser, un cortado*
