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El teléfono nuevo cuesta quince dólares.

El teléfono nuevo cuesta quince dólares.
The new phone costs fifteen dollars.
From Lesson 51:Numbers 0 to 15 (cero, uno, dos…)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El teléfono nuevo cuesta quince dólares.

el teléfono
the phone
nuevo
new
el dólar
the dollar
costar
to cost
quince
fifteen

Questions & Answers about El teléfono nuevo cuesta quince dólares.

Why is fifteen translated as quince here, and how do I pronounce it?
The Spanish word for fifteen is quince. Notice that it follows the same pattern as numbers 11 through 14, which all end in -ce (once, doce, trece, catorce). The qu combination makes a hard K sound, so it is pronounced KEEN-seh.
Why does the sentence say teléfono nuevo instead of nuevo teléfono?
In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) like nuevo (new) usually come right after the noun they describe. So, instead of saying new phone, you literally say phone new (teléfono nuevo).
Where does the word cuesta come from?
Cuesta means costs and it comes from the verb costar (to cost). It is a stem-changing verb, meaning the o in the middle changes to ue when you are talking about a single item like el teléfono. This is a very common word to learn early on for shopping!
Why does dólares have an -es at the end instead of just an -s?
The singular word for dollar is dólar. In Spanish, if a noun ends in a consonant (like the letter R), you make it plural by adding -es. You only add a simple -s if the word ends in a vowel.

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