How to Say "Chips" in Portuguese

batatas fritas

The English phrase chips is translated into Portuguese as batatas fritas.

In Portuguese, batatas fritas is used to describe this food, but it also covers deep-fried French fries.

What does it mean word for word?

The phrase is composed of batatas (potatoes) and fritas (fried).

The singular form batata frita can be used to refer to a single piece of fried potato.

In Brazilian casual speech, the phrase estou frito (literally 'I am fried') is used as an idiom to mean someone is in big trouble or has no way out.
The word batata shares an interesting phonetic similarity to the English 'potato', though they come from different linguistic roots, with 'batata' likely originating from the Tupi language of South America.
If you are in a Brazilian restaurant and order 'chips' meaning the snack, you might actually receive 'batata palha', which are much thinner, shredded potato sticks used as a topping.

Sirva-se de mais batatas fritas.
Help yourself to more potato chips.
This sentence shows how to offer more batatas fritas to someone.
Tatoeba #920023 by alexmarcelo, translation #30500 by CK
Gostaria de três sacos de batatas fritas.
I'd like three bags of potato chips.
This sentence shows how to request a specific quantity of bags of batatas fritas.
Tatoeba #8245555 by josivangoncalves, translation #8244302 by CK
Eu queria um saco de batatas fritas, por favor.
A bag of chips, please?
This sentence shows how to politely ask for a bag of batatas fritas.
Tatoeba #6584993 by alexmarcelo, translation #6584650 by Eccles17
3 more sentences on Tatoeba

At a snack bar, Felipe and Mariana are ordering food.

Felipe

Eu quero um hambúrguer e batatas fritas.
I want a burger and chips.
Mariana

Você quer batatas fritas bem crocantes?
Do you want very crunchy chips?
Felipe

Sim, por favor, eu adoro batatas fritas.
Yes, please, I love chips.
Mariana

Ótimo, vou pedir para nós agora.
Great, I will order for us now.

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