Basic numbers: Paying the grocery bill
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Key Phrases
Quanti articoli sono in totale?
How many items are there in total?
Quanto devo pagare?
How much do I have to pay?
Allora il resto è un euro e cinquanta.
Then the change is one euro and fifty cents.
Skills You'll Learn
Ask for the total number of items.
Chiedere il numero totale di articoli.
Ask for the total price to pay.
Chiedere il prezzo totale da pagare.
Understand and confirm payment and change in a shop.
Capire e confermare il pagamento e il resto in un negozio.
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you are at a shop in Italy, asking how many items there are, hearing the total price, paying with cash, and receiving your change politely.
Buongiorno! Quanti articoli sono in totale?
Good morning! How many items are there in total?
Buongiorno! Sono otto articoli.
Good morning! There are eight items.
Perfetto. Quanto devo pagare?
Perfect. How much do I have to pay?
Il totale è diciotto euro e cinquanta.
The total is eighteen euros and fifty cents.
Va bene. Le do venti euro.
All right. I’ll give you twenty euros.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Buongiorno!
bwohn-JOR-noh
Good morning!
🇮🇹 [Buongiorno] is the normal polite greeting in shops and at the checkout. In Italy, greeting the cashier before getting to the transaction feels more natural than jumping straight in.
See breakdown →Quanti articoli
KWAHN-tee ar-tee-KOH-lee
How many items
💬 [Quanti] changes to match a plural noun: [quanti articoli], but [quanto costa?] for one thing. You'll see the same idea with [quanti euro] and [quante borse].
See breakdown →Sono in totale
SOH-noh een toh-TAH-leh
Are there in total
Quanti articoli sono in totale?
KWAHN-tee ar-tee-KOH-lee SOH-noh een toh-TAH-leh
How many items are there in total?
💬 [Quanti] is used with countable things, so [quanti articoli?] means "how many items?" For prices or amounts in general, switch to [quanto]: [Quanto costa?]
See breakdown →Articoli
ar-TEE-koh-lee
Items
In totale
een toh-TAH-leh
In total
Sono
SOH-noh
There are / They are
💬 [Sono] can mean [they are], but also works like "there are" with plural things: [Sono otto articoli]. For one thing, use [è]: [È un euro].
See breakdown →Otto articoli
OHT-toh ar-tee-KOH-lee
Eight items
Sono otto articoli.
SOH-noh OHT-toh ar-tee-KOH-lee
There are eight items.
💬 Italian often just says [Sono otto articoli] for "There are eight items," without a separate word for "there." The same pattern works with prices and quantities: [Sono venti euro].
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