Learn Spanish (Spain): El precio del pan es bajo.

In Spanish, when the preposition de (of or from) comes right before the masculine article el (the), they must combine into the single word del. You will never see de el written as two separate words.

In English we just say "price of bread", so why does the Spanish sentence add the word "the" (del pan)?

Spanish often requires a definite article (el, la, los, las) when talking about a noun in a general sense. Because we are talking about bread in general, it needs the article el. When combined with de, it becomes del pan.

Why does the sentence use es instead of está? Doesn't the price of bread change?

Even though prices change over time, the price is considered a basic characteristic of the item in this context. We use the verb ser (here as es) to describe traits, qualities, and values, including stating a price.

I learned that bajo means "short". Why is it translated as "low" here?

The word bajo can mean both "short" and "low". When describing a person's height, it means "short". When talking about numbers, amounts, or prices like el precio, it means "low". It ends in "-o" here to match the masculine singular noun el precio.