Auf dem Markt
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A1.1 · 16 of 30
Hören: Zahlen & Preise
Lesson · 3 rules · about 3 min
Hear a market seller call out prices and match every product to what it costs, at real speed.
- 1Product, then price
- 2Euros first, cents second, no comma word
- 3'billig' is cheap, 'kostet' is costs
Why this matters
A market seller calls out today's prices — apples, bananas, bread, eggs, cheese, potatoes — and you only hear it. Your job is to match each product to its price, which is the most common listening job of daily life: numbers inside real speech, said at real speed. The trick is to hold the pair together: the product name comes first, the price follows within a second or two (… Äpfel … zwei Euro). Prices are said euros first, then cents, with no word for the comma: 2,20 € is 'zwei Euro zwanzig'; 1,10 € is 'ein Euro zehn'. Two prices here are close on purpose — zwei Euro and zwei Euro zehn — so listen to the end of each number. Play it once for the products, once for the prices.
Translation
Good day and welcome to the market! Today the apples are cheap: one kilo costs only two euros. The bananas cost three euros. A loaf of bread costs two euros ten. Would you like eggs too? Ten eggs cost two euros twenty. And the cheese from Holland is cheap today too: one piece costs four euros. The potatoes cost one euro ten. Thank you and have a nice day!
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Hören: Zahlen & Preise · A1.1
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