Money and Shopping

錢同購物

About this concept

Currency and transaction vocabulary. Hong Kong uses 蚊 man1 (colloquial for dollar/元). 毫 hou4 (ten cents). Shopping phrases: 幾錢 gei2 cin2 (how much), 平 peng4 (cheap), 貴 gwai3 (expensive).

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~25 cards at level A1.

Examples

呢個幾錢？How much is this?

五十蚊。Fifty dollars.

太貴喇！平啲得唔得？Too expensive! Can it be cheaper?

俾二十蚊你。Here's twenty dollars for you.

Prerequisite

Numbers and CountingA1

More A1 concepts

The Six Tones六聲調 Jyutping Romanization粵拼 Basic Greetings and Expressions基本問候語 Personal Pronouns人稱代詞係 (to be)動詞「係」

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