Shopping & Money
ख़रीदारी और पैसा
France uses the euro, and shopping conversations lean on a small set of fixed questions and phrases you'll reuse constantly — French builds these with a dedicated verb, coûter ('to cost'), while Hindi builds the same question out of a genitive construction with no verb 'to cost' at all.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
Combien ça coûte ? — French has a verb 'to cost'; Hindi has none
Combien ça coûte ? (How much does this cost?) — Ça coûte quinze euros. (It costs 15 euros.)
यह कितने का है? — यह पंद्रह यूरो का है।
coûter ('to cost') is a regular -er verb conjugated like any other, and the question almost always uses the pronoun ça ('this/that') as the subject — Ça coûte combien ? works just as well as Combien ça coûte ?, with the question word simply moved to the end, a casual-register move. Hindi has no dedicated verb 'to cost' at all: यह कितने का है literally means 'this is of how-much', using का (a genitive/possessive marker) plus है rather than an action verb — a fundamentally different mechanism from French's coûter. Reach for this genitive pattern instead of hunting for a Hindi verb to match coûter, since none exists.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
- Hindi
- यह कितने का है?yah kitne kā hai?
- English
- how much does this cost?
- Hindi
- यह...का हैyah...kā hai
- English
- it costs...
- Hindi
- यह बहुत महंगा हैyah bahut mahaṅgā hai
- English
- it's too expensive
- Hindi
- एक यूरोek yūro
- English
- one euro
- Hindi
- एक सेंटek senṭ
- English
- one cent
- Hindi
- काउंटरkāunṭar
- English
- the checkout/register
- Hindi
- भुगतान करनाbhugtān karnā
- English
- to pay
- Hindi
- बैंक कार्डbaiṅk kārḍ
- English
- the bank/debit card
- Hindi
- नक़द मेंnaqad meñ
- English
- in cash
- Hindi
- दामdām
- English
- the price
- Hindi
- छूटchhūṭ
- English
- a discount
- Hindi
- रसीदrasīd
- English
- a receipt