Shopping & Money
వస్తువులు కొనడం మరియు డబ్బు
Shopping phrases put your accusative case and numbers lessons to direct use — asking a price, saying how many, and handling money are where classroom grammar turns into a real conversation, and Telugu's own case-marking instincts carry over cleanly.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
Was kostet...? keeps the item in the nominative, not the accusative
Was kostet das Brot? (What does the bread cost? — das Brot stays nominative, the subject of kosten)
ఈ రొట్టె ఖరీదు ఎంత? (this bread price how-much — రొట్టె stays in its base form, with no -ని accusative suffix)
It's tempting to put the item you're asking about into the accusative, since you're 'dealing with' it — but kosten treats the item as the grammatical subject doing the costing, not an object being acted on, so it stays nominative in both languages: das Brot and రొట్టె need no case suffix here, exactly as Telugu leaves an unmarked noun when it's the subject rather than the object. Save the accusative -ని/-ను suffix for when you're the one taking an action on the item, as in Ich nehme den Kaffee ('I'll take the coffee') from Food & Ordering.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- దీని ఖరీదు ఎంత?deeni kharidu entha?
- English
- What does this cost?
- Telugu
- ఇది పది యూరోలు.idi padi yoorolu.
- English
- That costs ten euros.
- Telugu
- చవక / ఖరీదైనదిchavaka / kharidainadi
- English
- cheap / expensive
- Telugu
- డబ్బుdabbu
- English
- money
- Telugu
- డబ్బు చెల్లించడంdabbu chellinchadam
- English
- to pay
- Telugu
- నగదు కౌంటర్nagadu kaunter
- English
- the checkout / cash register