"Ate cheeseburger" or "ate a cheeseburger"?

Which of the following is correct?

  • Ate a cheese burger last night.
  • Ate cheese burger last night.

If there were an enormous cheeseburger and you cut it up and served pieces of it to separate people, then you could say you “ate cheeseburger” last night. Otherwise, cheeseburger is a count noun and you have to use a count determiner like a with it.

As a side note, we do write cheeseburger as a single word, not separately as cheese burger.


[I|you|we] ate a cheeseburger last night.