Ordering mushrooms: Asking the price

💬 [Vorrei] is softer than a plain [voglio] for buying things: literally "I would like." You can reuse it with almost anything: [Vorrei un caffè] or [Vorrei due etti di prosciutto].

💬 [Dei] here means "some," not "of the." It's a very common way to talk about an unspecified amount: [dei funghi], [dei pomodori], [delle fragole].

🇮🇹 [Per favore] is polite, but in shops Italians often sound perfectly courteous with just tone plus [vorrei] or [grazie]. Using it is fine; omitting it doesn't automatically sound rude.

💬 [Vorrei] is the go-to polite way to ask for food or goods, softer than [voglio]. Swap in what you want: [Vorrei un chilo di mele, per favore].

💬 [Quanti] changes to match the thing you're counting. With masculine plural like [funghi], it's [quanti]; with feminine plural, it becomes [quante]: [Quante mele?]

💬 [Ne] stands for "of them" or "some," so Italians don't repeat the noun. The same pattern works elsewhere: [Ne prendo due] = "I'll take two of them."

💬 [Ne] replaces the thing being talked about, so [Quanti ne vuoi?] is literally "How many of them do you want?" You'll hear this a lot when ordering by number or quantity.