How to Say ‘How much do they cost?’ in Italian
Quanto costano?
KWAHN-toh koh-STAH-noh
[KWAHN-toh koh-STAH-noh]
💬 Usage Tip: Basic and super useful. For one item, you would ask: 'Quanto costa?'
🇮🇹 In Italy: At markets, prices may be posted per kilo, but asking is still very normal.
Phrase Breakdown
Quanto
[KWAHN-toh]
how much
Introduces a question about price.
Quanto costano i funghi porcini oggi?
How much do the porcini mushrooms cost today?
Costano?
koh-STAH-noh
do they cost?
Third-person plural of 'costare', used here to ask the price of plural items.
Quanto costano questi pomodori?
How much do these tomatoes cost?
Words in this phrase
costano
[koh-STAH-noh]
do they cost
Plural verb used because the item asked about is plural, like mushrooms.
Quanto costano questi funghi?
How much do these mushrooms cost?
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