# Spanish by Choice/SpanishPod newbie lesson A0033

It's Expensive

### Introduction

Beware! This is the taboo lesson: rents, salaries, politics, religion, sex, and ... mamas! Liliana and JP give invaluable information about US-American and Latin-American culture. The keywords are: cara – expensive (for feminine nouns) and caro – expensive (for masculine nouns).
* related SpanishPod lessons: A0013: Doing the laundry, A0037: The baby is sleeping, A0062: At the bank
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### Audio Lesson

* SpanishPod_newbie_lesson_A0033.ogg (file info) (mp3 file)
* Title: “It's expensive” Dialogue only (file info)
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### Dialogue

    hombre:Mi renta es de mil dólares.align="right"| mujer:¿En serio? Es muy cara.align="right"| hombre:Pero todo es caro.align="right"| mujer:Tienes razón.align="right"|

### Dialogue with Translation

    hombre:Mirentaesdemildólares.align="right" valign="top" rowspan="3"| myrentisofthousanddollars man:My rent is at a thousand dollars.
    mujer:¿Enserio?Esmuycara.align="right" valign="top" rowspan="3"| inserious(it) isveryexpensive woman:Seriously? It's very expensive.
    hombre:Perotodoescaroalign="right" valign="top" rowspan="3"| buteverythingisexpensive man:But everything is expensive.
    mujer:Tienesrazón.align="right" valign="top" rowspan="3"| (you) haveright woman:You're right.

### Vocabulary for Dialogue

    el hombrenoun (masculine)the man la mujernoun (feminine)the woman mipossessive adjectivemy la rentanoun (feminine)the rent serverb (infinitive)to be (él/ella) esverb (present tense)he/she(/it) is deprepositionof milnumberthousand el dólarnoun (masculine)the dollar los dólaresnoun (plural, masculine)the dollars enprepositionin serio/seriaadjective (m./f.)serious muyadverbvery caro/caraadjective (m./f.)expensive peroconjunctionbut todopronouneverything, all tenerverb (infinitive)to have (tú) tienesverb (present tense)you have (informal, singular) la razónnoun (feminine)the reason tener razónphraseto be right

### Vocabulary for Audio Lesson

    la caranoun (feminine)the face hasta luegophrasesee you later

### More Vocabulary

This section includes grammatically related words. Some of them are required by the exercise Dialogue Recast.
| mi | possessive adjective | my |
| mis | poss. adjective (plural) | my |
| tu | possessive adjective | your (informal, singular) |
| tus | poss. adjective (plural) | your (informal, singular) |
| su | possessive adjective | his/her(/its)/their |
| sus | poss. adjective (plural) | his/her(/its)/their |
| su | possessive adjective | your (formal) |
| sus | poss. adjective (plural) | your (formal) |
| nuestro/nuestra | poss. adjective (m./f.) | our |
| nuestros/nuestras | poss. adj. (plural, m./f.) | our |
| vuestro/vuestra | poss. adjective (m./f.) | your (informal, plural) |
| vuestros/vuestras | poss. adj. (plural, m./f.) | your (informal, plural) |
| ser | infinitive | to be |
| (yo) soy | present tense | I am |
| (tú) eres | | you are (informal, singular) |
| (él/ella) es | | he/she(/it) is |
| (usted) es | | you are (formal, singular) |
| (nosotros/-as) somos | | we are (m./f.) |
| (vosotros/-as) sois | | you are (informal, plural, m./f.) |
| (ellos/ellas) son | | they are (m./f.) |
| (ustedes) son | | you are (formal, plural) |
| tener | infinitive | to have |
| (yo) tengo | present tense | I have |
| (tú) tienes | | you have (informal, singular) |
| (él/ella) tiene | | he/she(/it) has |
| (usted) tiene | | you have (formal, singular) |
| (nosotros/-as) tenemos | | we have (m./f.) |
| (vosotros/-as) tenéis | | you have (informal, plural, m./f.) |
| (ellos/ellas) tienen | | they have (m./f.) |
| (ustedes) tienen | | you have (formal, plural) |

### Exercises
#### Dialogue Translation

Translate from Spanish to English. Click each bar to check your answer. If possible, read the Spanish sentences aloud.

#### Dialogue Recall

Now translate from English to Spanish. Remember to say the Spanish sentences aloud.

#### Dialogue Remix

Translate this variant of the dialogue from English to Spanish.

#### Dialogue Recast

This translation exercise requires some of the words from the More Vocabulary section.