Breakdown of Der Laptop kostet tausend Euro.
kosten
to cost
der Laptop
the laptop
der Euro
the euro
tausend
thousand
Questions & Answers about Der Laptop kostet tausend Euro.
Why is it just tausend instead of eintausend for 'a thousand'?
In German, when you want to say 'one thousand' or 'a thousand', you typically just say tausend. You can say eintausend, but it's mostly used when you really need to be precise, like on official forms or cheques. The exact same rule applies to 100 (hundert).
Shouldn't it be tausend Euros since it's plural?
Why does the verb kosten have an extra 'e' in kostet?
The root of the verb kosten (to cost) is kost-. Because it ends in a 't', adding the standard 't' ending for 'he/she/it' would result in an unpronounceable 'kostt'. To fix this, German inserts a helper 'e', making it kostet.
Why is the English word Laptop used with the masculine article der?
When English words are adopted into German, they must be assigned a gender. They often take the gender of the closest German equivalent. Since 'the computer' is masculine (der Computer), der Laptop is also masculine. And don't forget, because it's now a German noun, it must be capitalized!