How Much Is It? — Asking for Opinions & Prices | Common Core Lesson

Welcome to Unit 3! In this unit, we will talk about shopping. Let’s start by learning how to ask about prices and give your opinion about things.

To ask how much something costs, we use “How much”:

Example

How much is it? It’s 50 dirhams.
How much are they? They’re 100 dirhams.

Remember

One thing → “is”. More than one thing → “are”.

لنسأل عن سعر شيء، نستخدم “How much”. لشيء واحد نستخدم “is” (How much is it?)، ولأكثر من شيء نستخدم “are” (How much are they?).

To ask what someone thinks about something, we can say:

Example

What do you think of this shirt?
Do you like this bag?

لنسأل شخصا عن رأيه في شيء ما، نقول: “What do you think of this shirt?” (ما رأيك في هذا القميص؟) أو “Do you like this bag?” (هل تحب هذه الحقيبة؟).

Here are useful words to describe things when shopping:

Describing Words

nicebeautifulexpensivecheapugly

💡 Easy Tip

“Expensive” means it costs a lot of money. “Cheap” means it costs a little money. Don’t mix them up!

هذه كلمات مفيدة لوصف الأشياء عند التسوق: nice (جميل)، beautiful (رائع)، expensive (غالي)، cheap (رخيص)، ugly (قبيح).

Let’s put it all together in a real shopping conversation:

Dialogue

A: How much is this T-shirt?
B: It’s 80 dirhams.
A: That’s expensive!
B: What about this one? It’s cheap, only 40 dirhams.

هذا حوار كامل عن التسوق: نسأل عن السعر (How much is this T-shirt?)، نجيب بالسعر (It’s 80 dirhams)، ثم نعطي رأينا (That’s expensive!).

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