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El almuerzo hoy cuesta cinco o diez pesos.

El almuerzo hoy cuesta cinco o diez pesos.
Lunch today costs five or ten pesos.
From Lesson 51:Numbers 0 to 15 (cero, uno, dos…)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El almuerzo hoy cuesta cinco o diez pesos.

el almuerzo
the lunch
hoy
today
costar
to cost
el peso
the peso
o
or
cinco
five
diez
ten

Questions & Answers about El almuerzo hoy cuesta cinco o diez pesos.

Do numbers like cinco and diez change to plural since pesos is plural?
No, most numbers in Spanish don't change to match the noun they describe. Cinco (five) and diez (ten) will always stay exactly the same, no matter if the noun is masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.
Why does the Spanish sentence start with El almuerzo when the English translation just says 'Lunch'?
In Spanish, when you use a general concept or a meal as the subject of a sentence, you almost always need to include the definite article (el, la, los, las). So, while we just say 'Lunch today' in English, in Spanish it has to be El almuerzo hoy.
The dictionary says the verb for 'to cost' is costar. Why is it spelled cuesta here?
Costar is a stem-changing verb. This means that when we conjugate it for certain pronouns, the vowel in the middle changes. Because we are talking about a singular subject, el almuerzo (it), the o changes to ue, giving us cuesta.
How is the letter z pronounced in the number diez?
In Latin American Spanish, the letter z is pronounced exactly like the English letter 's'. So, diez is pronounced like 'dyess'.

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