How to Say ‘Would you happen to have change?’ in Mexican Spanish
¿Tendrá cambio, de casualidad?
ten-DRAH KAHM-byoh deh kah-swah-lee-DAHD
[ten-DRAH KAHM-byoh deh kah-swah-lee-DAHD]
Phrase Breakdown
¿Tendrá cambio,
ten-DRAH KAHM-byoh
Would you have change,
The future form 'tendrá' makes the request softer and more polite. The stress falls on the end: 'ten-DRA'.
¿Tendrá cambio de doscientos?
Would you have change for two hundred?
Words in this phrase
Tendrá
[ten-DRAH]
would you have / might you have
Future of 'tener', used to ask politely or wonder.
¿Tendrá leche de almendra?
Might you have almond milk?
cambio
[KAHM-byoh]
change
Small money returned after payment or used to break a bill.
No tengo monedas, ¿me da cambio?
I don’t have coins, can you give me change?
de casualidad?
deh kah-swah-lee-DAHD
by any chance?
A very common polite add-on in Mexico. Say it 'deh-ka-swa-lee-DAD', with a soft final 'd'.
¿Tiene una pluma, de casualidad?
Do you have a pen, by any chance?
Words in this phrase
de
[deh]
by
Part of the phrase 'de casualidad' (by chance).
Lo encontré de casualidad.
I found it by chance.
casualidad
[kah-swah-lee-DAHD]
chance
Coincidence; 'de casualidad' means 'by any chance'.
¿De casualidad sabe la hora?
Do you by any chance know the time?
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