Wir feilschen um den Preis.

Feilschen specifically means to haggle or to bargain back and forth, usually about a price. It often suggests trying to get a better deal, sometimes in a lively or persistent way.

By contrast, verhandeln is broader and more neutral: it means to negotiate and can be used for contracts, politics, agreements, and prices.

So Wir feilschen um den Preis sounds more like:

• We’re haggling over the price

while Wir verhandeln über den Preis would be:

• We’re negotiating the price

With feilschen, German normally uses um when talking about what is being fought over or bargained over:

• um den Preis feilschen
• um Geld feilschen
• um ein paar Euro feilschen

This is just the standard preposition that goes with this verb.

A useful way to think about it is:

• um = over / for in the sense of a disputed target
• über = about in the sense of discussing a topic

So here, the speaker is not merely talking about the price; they are bargaining over it.

Den Preis is accusative singular.

That happens because the preposition um always takes the accusative case in this meaning.

The noun is:

• nominative: der Preis
• accusative: den Preis

So:

• der Preis = the price
• um den Preis = over the price

Yes, feilschen is a regular weak verb.

Its basic forms are:

• infinitive: feilschen
• 3rd person singular present: feilscht
• simple past: feilschte
• past participle: gefeilscht

Examples:

• Ich feilsche
• Wir feilschen
• Er feilscht
• Wir haben gefeilscht

Because German main clauses usually follow the V2 rule: the finite verb comes in the second position.

Here the structure is:

• Wir = first position
• feilschen = second position
• um den Preis = the rest

So this is standard German word order for a simple statement.

Yes. German often allows different elements to come first, as long as the finite verb stays in second position.

For example:

• Um den Preis feilschen wir.

This is grammatically possible, but it sounds more marked and gives emphasis to um den Preis.

The most neutral version is:

• Wir feilschen um den Preis.

No. Feilschen is not a separable verb.

That means you do not split it apart in a sentence. It stays as one verb:

• Wir feilschen um den Preis.

Compare that with a separable verb such as:

• Wir kaufen ein.

Nothing like that happens with feilschen.

Yes, it is natural, especially when talking about bargaining in a market, with a seller, or in any situation where people try to lower a price.

That said, in everyday speech Germans might also say things like:

• Wir handeln den Preis runter.
• Wir versuchen, den Preis zu drücken.
• Wir verhandeln über den Preis.

But Wir feilschen um den Preis is perfectly good German and clearly expresses haggling.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• feil sounds a bit like English file
• schen sounds like shen, but with the German sch sound

So roughly:

• FILE-shen

The full sentence is approximately:

• Veer FILE-shen oom dane PRICE

A few notes:

• w in German sounds like English v
• ei usually sounds like English eye
• sch sounds like English sh
• um is pronounced with a short vowel, not like English yum

Preis most commonly means a price in the money sense, but it can also mean a cost in a broader or figurative sense.

For example:

• Der Preis ist zu hoch. = The price is too high.
• Zu welchem Preis? = At what price? / At what cost?

In this sentence, though, the most natural meaning is the ordinary monetary price of something being bought or sold.