Grocery shopping: Asking for the price
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Key Phrases
Scusi
Excuse me
Posso avere
Can I have
Quanto è il totale?
What's the total?
Skills You'll Learn
Asking for prices
Chiedere i prezzi
Requesting items
Richiedere articoli
Handling transactions
Gestire le transazioni
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you are in an Italian grocery store, engaging in a friendly exchange with the shopkeeper. You inquire about the prices of various items such as bread, apples, and cookies, and decide how much of each you would like to purchase. The dialogue helps you practice basic conversational skills while shopping in Italy.
Scusi, quanto costa questo pane?
Excuse me, how much does this bread cost?
Questo pane costa due euro al chilo.
This bread costs two euros per kilo.
E le mele, quanto vengono?
And the apples, how much are they?
Le mele sono tre euro per chilo.
The apples are three euros per kilo.
Posso avere mezzo chilo?
Can I have half a kilo?
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Scusi
Skoo-zee
Excuse me
🇮🇹 [Scusi] is the normal polite way to get a shop worker's attention before a question. In a store, it sounds more natural than jumping straight to the price question.
See breakdown →Quanto
Kwahn-toh
How much
💬 [Quanto] means [how much] with prices, totals, and amounts: [Quanto costa?], [Quanto è il totale?]. For countable things, Italian often uses [quanti]/[quante] instead: [Quante mele?].
See breakdown →Questo
Kwe-stoh
This
💬 [Questo] changes to match the noun: [questo pane], but [questa mela]. In the plural, it becomes [questi] or [queste].
See breakdown →Pane
Pah-neh
Bread
Questo pane
Kwe-stoh Pah-neh
This bread
Costa
Koh-stah
Costs
💬 [Costa] means [it costs], even when Italian doesn't say the subject out loud: [Costa due euro]. The same pattern works with other items: [Questo pane costa due euro].
See breakdown →Due euro
Doo-eh Eh-oo-roh
Two euros
Al
Ahl
Per
💬 [Al] is a merger of [a] + [il]. You'll see the same kind of merge in common price phrases like [al chilo] and [al litro].
See breakdown →Chilo
Kee-loh
Kilo
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