How do you translate "green beans" into spanish?

Question

Culinary terms. I need to translate a recipe and I have not found a good multi-cultural translation for this.

Please capitalize your title sentence. Thanks. - 002262dd, Jan 11, 2011

Muchas gracias por todas sus respuestas. Thank you for all your answers. I am going with Judias Verdes, Ejotes, Guisantes o Habichuelas. This is exactly what I meant by a "multi-cultural" translation. Capitalize title sentence? - olguitarrod, Jan 12, 2011

Answer 1

Hi Olgu - welcome to the forum. What did you mean by a multicultural translation? In Spanish the correct term is this:

Answer 2

judías verdes

:) Thats what I use Lol - FELIZ77, Jan 11, 2011

Answer 3

Ejotes in Mexico.

Answer 4

Hola:

As you have seen, it depends. Green beans are called different names in different places. Another option (Colombia) is "habichuelas", eventhough "judías" can also be understood.

"judia" is also a jew no? - itay_a, Jan 11, 2011

Yes, it is a female jewish person. - LuisaGomezBartle, Jan 12, 2011

Answer 5

I asked this question once and the answer that I seemed to get most often was ejotes, but only in Mexico. I said "ejotes" once in the Skype chat, referring to green beans, and Heidi (from Spain) said that she had never even heard that word. She said in Spain they are frijoles verdes, at least that what I remember! Maybe she will see this and set me right if I am not remembering it correctly.

Answer 6

As far as I know, the green beans are never called "frijoles."

That's a term for the various types of cooked dried beans.

Answer 7

hi. pienso que la plabra que estas buscando es "guisantes".

i think the word you're looking for is "guisantes".

No guisantes are peas, ther is a difference. - kenwilliams, Jan 11, 2011

you're right, sorry, i guess it's the hour (2:00 a.m) i saw beans and read peas. - itay_a, Jan 11, 2011