VerbamorLunch in Spanish
“Lunch” in Spanish is el almuerzo: a masculine noun, pronounced /alˈmweɾ.so/.
In a sentence
La niña come su almuerzo en la escuela.
The girl eats her lunch at school.
Grammar note
The verb is almorzar, to have lunch. In Spain the big midday meal is usually la comida, and almuerzo can mean a mid-morning snack.
In most of Spain the z, or c before e or i, is said like the th in think: /alˈmweɾ.θo/.
How to remember it
Almuerzo is also a verb form: almuerzo a la una means I have lunch at one. One word for the meal and for eating it.
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