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Le livre coûte trente euros.

Le livre coûte trente euros.
The book costs 30 euros.
From Lesson 29:Numbers 21 to 100·French

Breakdown of Le livre coûte trente euros.

le livre
the book
coûter
to cost
l'euro
the euro (m)
trente
thirty

Questions & Answers about Le livre coûte trente euros.

Is there a trick to remembering the word trente for thirty?
Yes! It helps to look at the beginning of the word. trente (30) starts with the same "tr" letters as trois (3). You will see this pattern in other French tens too, like quarante (40) which starts like quatre (4).
How exactly do I pronounce trente euros? Do the words run together?
They do glide together. The 'e' at the end of trente is silent, leaving the "t" as the last spoken sound. You link that "t" sound directly into the beginning of euros, making it sound smoothly like "trent-euros".
Since trente means there are multiple euros, do I pronounce the 's' at the end of euros?
No, the 's' at the end of euros is completely silent, just like most plural 's' endings in French. You pronounce the word exactly the same as if it were a single euro.
Why does the verb coûte have that little hat (^) on the 'u'?
That accent mark is called a circumflex. In many French words, it shows that an 's' used to be there in old French but got dropped over time. If you imagine an 's' right after the 'u', coûte looks and sounds a lot like its English translation: "cost"!

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