What does aubergine mean?
Word: Aubergine
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Aubergine means a large vegetable with smooth, shiny, dark purple skin and soft pale flesh, usually eaten cooked.
How do you spell aubergine?
Syllables: au - ber - gine
Tricky part: The word opens with au, said like the o in go, so many students write obergine. The g near the end is soft, like the s in treasure.
Watch out for: obergine, auberjine, aubergin
Memory tip: Autumn, August and aubergine all start with the same two letters, au, even though aubergine says them like oh.
Aubergine in a sentence
Example 1: Amma roasted an aubergine over the gas flame and mashed it with onions and green chillies.
Example 2: The aubergines at the Sunday market were so glossy that they looked polished.
Example 3: Kabir does not like the taste of aubergine, but he loves the way it turns soft in a curry.
Fun Fact
In American English the same vegetable is called an eggplant, because some early kinds grown in Europe were small, white and shaped like eggs.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
uinraeebg
a) burger
b) auburn
c) bargain
d) aubergine
Show answer
d) aubergine. Auburn and burger are too short, and bargain has no e, so only the vegetable uses all nine letters.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
aub_rg_ne
a) i,i
b) e,e
c) a,i
d) e,i
Show answer
d) e,i. The middle beat sounds like the start of berry, and the long ee sound at the end is written with an i, as in machine.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
aubergine
a) brinjal
b) cucumber
c) pumpkin
d) okra
Show answer
a) brinjal. Brinjal is the name used in India for this same purple vegetable.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) aubergine
b) cabbege
c) spinich
d) potatoe
Show answer
a) aubergine. Cabbage has an a before its ge, potato has no e at the end, and spinach ends in ach.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which dish is made mainly from aubergine?
a) aloo paratha
b) palak paneer
c) gajar halwa
d) baingan bharta
Show answer
d) baingan bharta
2. An aubergine grows ____.
a) on a tall tree
b) under the soil
c) on a climbing creeper
d) on a bushy plant
Show answer
d) on a bushy plant
