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¿Cuántos dólares cuesta la computadora nueva?

¿Cuántos dólares cuesta la computadora nueva?
How many dollars does the new computer cost?
From Lesson 28:How much and how many (cuánto)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of ¿Cuántos dólares cuesta la computadora nueva?

la computadora
the computer
nuevo
new
cuánto
how much / how many
el dólar
dollar
costar
to cost

Questions & Answers about ¿Cuántos dólares cuesta la computadora nueva?

Why is it cuántos and not cuánto or cuántas?
Cuántos is an interrogative adjective that means 'how many', and it must match the noun it describes in both gender and number. Because dólar is a masculine word and we are asking about more than one, we use the masculine plural form: cuántos dólares.
If dólares is plural, why is the verb cuesta singular instead of the plural cuestan?
The verb must match the subject of the sentence doing the action. Here, the subject is la computadora nueva (the new computer), which is singular. You can think of the underlying sentence structure as 'The new computer costs how many dollars?' so we use the singular verb cuesta.
Why does dólares have an accent mark?
The singular word is dólar. When we make it plural by adding -es, we add an extra spoken syllable. To keep the natural voice stress on that exact same 'o' sound as in the singular form, Spanish requires us to add a written accent mark: dólares.
Why is the order computadora nueva instead of nueva computadora?
In Spanish, descriptive words like nueva (new) usually come directly after the noun they describe. Also, notice that nueva ends in 'a' so that it matches the feminine singular noun computadora.

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