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How to Say ‘That's twenty-three euros fifty’ in French

Ça fait vingt-trois euros cinquante

sah feh vant-TRWAH uh-roh sankont

[sah feh vant-TRWAH uh-roh sankont]

💬 Usage Tip: Prices are said as the euros, then the cents as a plain number, with no word for cents needed. So €4.80 is quatre euros quatre-vingts.

Phrase Breakdown

Ça fait vingt-trois euros

sah feh vant-TRWAH uh-roh

That comes to twenty-three euros

'Ça fait' is the usual way to give a total. 'Vingt' sounds like 'van' with a nasal vowel, and its 't' is pronounced before 'trois'. The 's' of 'trois' links to 'euros' with a 'z' sound: 'trwa-zeuro'.

Example

Ça fait vingt-trois euros, monsieur.

That comes to twenty-three euros, sir.

Words in this phrase

Ça

[sah]

it / that

Demonstrative pronoun meaning 'it' or 'that'.

Example

J'espère que ça te plaise vraiment.

I hope you really like it.

fait

[feh]

makes

To create or construct by combining or shaping resources.

Example

Elle fait du café.

She makes coffee.

vingt-trois

[vant-TRWAH]

twenty-three

The number 23, written with a hyphen.

Example

J'ai vingt-trois ans.

I am twenty-three years old.

euros

[uh-roh]

euros

The currency used in France and much of Europe.

Example

Environ vingt euros me semblait raisonnable.

About twenty euros seemed reasonable to me.

cinquante

[sankont]

fifty

The number following 49.

Example

Il avait cinquante ans cette année-là.

He was fifty years old that year.

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