Mennyibe kerül ez a szendvics?

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Breakdown of Mennyibe kerül ez a szendvics?

• szendvics: the sandwich
• mennyibe: how much
• kerülni: to cost

Questions & Answers about Mennyibe kerül ez a szendvics?

What does Mennyibe mean, and how is it different from mennyi?

Mennyi means how much or how many, depending on context.

Mennyibe is built from mennyi + -be, where -be normally means into, but in this expression it helps form the idiomatic pattern for asking a price:

• Mennyibe kerül? = How much does it cost?

So you should think of mennyibe here as part of a fixed price-question structure, not as a word you translate literally piece by piece every time.

A useful comparison:

• Mennyi ez? = How much is this?
• Mennyibe kerül ez? = How much does this cost?

Both are natural, but mennyibe kerül is especially common for asking the price of something.

Why is there a -be ending in mennyibe if the sentence is about price, not movement?