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El reloj cuesta quinientos ochenta y cuatro pesos.

El reloj cuesta quinientos ochenta y cuatro pesos.
The watch costs five hundred eighty-four pesos.
From Lesson 53:Numbers 30 to 1000 (treinta, cien, mil)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El reloj cuesta quinientos ochenta y cuatro pesos.

el reloj
the clock
costar
to cost
el peso
the peso
cuatro
four
ochenta
eighty
quinientos
five hundred

Questions & Answers about El reloj cuesta quinientos ochenta y cuatro pesos.

Why is "five hundred" quinientos instead of "cinco cientos"?
While many hundreds are formed by combining the number with cientos (like doscientos for 200 or trescientos for 300), 500 is an exception. It changes to quinientos. It's an irregular number word that you just have to memorize!
Why is there a y in ochenta y cuatro?
In Spanish, when you write numbers from 31 to 99, you connect the tens and the ones with y (which means "and"). So, 84 is literally "eighty and four" (ochenta y cuatro), and it is always written as three separate words.
Why does the verb for "costs" have a "ue" in cuesta?
The dictionary form of the verb is costar (to cost). However, it is a "stem-changing" verb. This means the vowel o in the middle changes to ue when we talk about a single item costing something, making it cuesta.
Doesn't reloj usually mean "clock"?
It means both! Spanish uses reloj for any everyday device that tells time, whether it's a wall clock or a wristwatch. If you ever need to be highly specific, a wristwatch is called a reloj de pulsera, but usually, people just say reloj.

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