Word
O café custa um euro.
Meaning
The coffee costs one euro.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O café custa um euro.
um
a / an / some (all forms)
o café
the café
o euro
the euro
custar
to cost
Questions & Answers about O café custa um euro.
Does um mean "a" or "one" here?
It means both! In Portuguese, the word for the number one (um for masculine words, uma for feminine words) is exactly the same as the word for "a" or "an". In this sentence, because it's a price (um euro), it makes the most sense to translate it as "one".
Why is there an accent mark on café?
The acute accent (´) tells you two things: which syllable to stress, and how to pronounce the vowel. It means you stress the final syllable, and the "e" makes an open "eh" sound, rather than the closed, almost silent "e" sound often found at the end of European Portuguese words.
Is custa a regular verb?
Why isn't the currency capitalized in um euro?
Just like in English, the names of currencies like euro and dólar are common nouns. They are always written with lowercase letters in Portuguese unless they are the very first word of a sentence.