Basic numbers: Paying the grocery bill
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Key Phrases
Precisa de saco?
Do you need a bag?
São catorze euros e trinta, com o saco.
That's fourteen euros thirty, with the bag.
Quer número de contribuinte?
Do you want your tax number?
Skills You'll Learn
Asking and answering about needing a bag during a purchase
Pedir e responder sobre a necessidade de um saco numa compra
Understanding and saying prices in euros
Compreender e dizer preços em euros
Handling payment, change, and farewell expressions in a shop
Lidar com o pagamento, o troco e expressões de despedida numa loja
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at the checkout of a supermarket in Lisbon. You want to pay for your shopping and get a bag.
Bom dia!
Good morning!
Bom dia. Precisa de saco?
Good morning. Do you need a bag?
Sim, um saco, por favor.
Yes, one bag, please.
São catorze euros e trinta, com o saco.
That's fourteen euros thirty, with the bag.
Aqui tem vinte euros.
Here's twenty euros.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Precisa de saco?
preh-SEE-zah day SAH-koo
Do you need a bag?
🇵🇹 Supermarkets in Portugal charge a few cents for bags, so cashiers ask before adding one. Many locals bring their own.
See breakdown →Sim, um saco, por favor.
seeng oong SAH-koo poor fah-VOHR
Yes, one bag, please.
São catorze euros e trinta
sawn kah-TOR-zeh EH-oo-roosh ee TREEN-tah
It's fourteen euros thirty
💬 Prices use são "are", not é "is", because the euros are plural. The cents simply follow e without saying cêntimos "cents".
See breakdown →Com o saco
kohng oo SAH-koo
With the bag
São catorze euros e trinta, com o saco.
sawn kah-TOR-zeh EH-oo-roosh ee TREEN-tah kohng oo SAH-koo
That's fourteen euros thirty, with the bag.
Aqui tem
ah-KEE tayng
Here you are
💬 Literally "here you have": tem is the polite form of "you have". Use it whenever you hand something over, like Aqui tem o cartão "Here's the card".
See breakdown →Vinte euros
VIN-cheh EH-oo-roosh
Twenty euros
💬 A final s in European Portuguese sounds like English sh, so euros comes out roughly (EH-oo-roosh).
See breakdown →Aqui tem vinte euros.
ah-KEE tayng VIN-cheh EH-oo-roosh
Here's twenty euros.
Obrigada
oh-bree-GAH-dah
Thank you (said by a woman)
💬 The ending matches the person speaking, not the person being thanked: women say obrigada, men say obrigado.
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