Translation
to cost
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Examples
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The book costs ten francs.
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How much does that hat cost?
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The house cost too much money.
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That sort of work will cost us many hours.
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The journey cost more than I thought.
The price after takes -n, because it is a measurement rather than a thing being acted on: , the same accusative you already use in . The person out of pocket goes in with , so works exactly as English "cost me". Ask the price with , never . The root gives for a cost and for expensive, which is the everyday word where would be ambiguous between dear and expensive.
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Word family
Words built on kosti with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malmultekostaadjective
cheap, inexpensive
mal-multakosti
- multekostaadjective
expensive, costly
multakosti: costing much
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 8, lesson 9: kosti, sincera, veturilo and 7 more words.