Breakdown of El teléfono nuevo cuesta quinientos dólares.
el teléfono
the phone
nuevo
new
el dólar
the dollar
costar
to cost
Questions & Answers about El teléfono nuevo cuesta quinientos dólares.
Why is five hundred quinientos instead of cincocientos?
Why is it teléfono nuevo and not nuevo teléfono?
In Spanish, descriptive words (adjectives) like nuevo usually come right after the noun they describe. So instead of saying new phone, you literally say phone new (teléfono nuevo).
The dictionary says to cost is costar. Why is it spelled cuesta here?
Costar is a stem-changing verb. When you use it for a singular thing like a phone, the o in the middle changes to ue. That is why it becomes cuesta instead of costa.