How to Say ‘They're still hard for me’ in Mexican Spanish
Todavía me cuestan
toh-dah-VEE-ah meh KWES-tahn
[toh-dah-VEE-ah meh KWES-tahn]
💬 Usage Tip: costar "to cost" also means "to be hard for". It matches the thing that's hard: me cuesta for one thing, me cuestan for several.
Phrase Breakdown
Todavía
[toh-dah-VEE-ah]
still
Continuing to be something; even now or then.
Todavía está lloviendo.
It's still raining.
me
[meh]
to me
Indirect object pronoun showing who is affected or who cares.
En «Me importa mucho.», «Me» indica a la persona que siente interés.
In “It matters to me a lot,” “Me” shows the person who cares.
cuestan
[KWES-tahn]
are hard (for)
From 'costar'; with an indirect object it means something is difficult for someone.
Me cuestan las matemáticas.
Math is hard for me.
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