Skip to content
Spanish
Log inStart
Illustration for “Can you give me a discount?”

Spanish dialogue with translation · A2 · 16 lines

¿Me hace un descuento? Can you give me a discount?

Comic · 16 panels

Panel 1 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “There's a bit of everything at this street market: clothes, bags, sneakers… And you can haggle with the sellers.”
  1. Pablo

    En este mercadillo hay de todo: ropa, bolsos, zapatillas… Y puedes regatear con los vendedores.

    There's a bit of everything at this street market: clothes, bags, sneakers… And you can haggle with the sellers.

Panel 2 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Haggle? I don't know how. In the stores in my country nobody haggles.”
  1. Ana

    ¿Regatear? Yo no sé. En las tiendas de mi país nadie regatea.

    Haggle? I don't know how. In the stores in my country nobody haggles.

Panel 3 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Good morning. How much is this brown bag?”
  1. Ana

    Buenos días. ¿Cuánto vale este bolso marrón?

    Good morning. How much is this brown bag?

Panel 4 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Forty euros. It's leather, and it's very good quality.”
  1. Vendedor

    Cuarenta euros. Es de cuero y de muy buena calidad.

    Forty euros. It's leather, and it's very good quality.

Panel 5 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “It's a little expensive… And that black bag over there?”
  1. Ana

    Es un poco caro… ¿Y aquel bolso negro?

    It's a little expensive… And that black bag over there?

Panel 6 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “That one's thirty. It's cheaper than the brown one, but the quality is worse: it's not leather.”
  1. Vendedor

    Ese vale treinta. Es más barato que el marrón, pero la calidad es peor: no es de cuero.

    That one's thirty. It's cheaper than the brown one, but the quality is worse: it's not leather.

Panel 7 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “And it's not as nice as the brown one. The brown one is much better.”
  1. Pablo

    Y no es tan bonito como el marrón. El marrón es mucho mejor.

    And it's not as nice as the brown one. The brown one is much better.

Panel 8 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Yes, but it's too expensive for me. Can you give me a discount? (formal)”
  1. Ana

    Sí, pero es demasiado caro para mí. ¿Me hace un descuento?

    Yes, but it's too expensive for me. Can you give me a discount? (formal)

Panel 9 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “For such a nice customer, thirty-five. It's a bargain! (to a woman)”
  1. Vendedor

    Para una cliente tan simpática, treinta y cinco. ¡Es una ganga!

    For such a nice customer, thirty-five. It's a bargain! (to a woman)

Panel 10 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “And what if I take two? One for me and one for my mother.”
  1. Ana

    ¿Y si me llevo dos? Uno para mí y otro para mi madre.

    And what if I take two? One for me and one for my mother.

Panel 11 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Two bags, seventy euros.”
  1. Vendedor

    Dos bolsos, setenta euros.

    Two bags, seventy euros.

Panel 12 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “I don't have enough money. I only have sixty euros on me.”
  1. Ana

    No tengo suficiente dinero. Solo llevo sesenta euros.

    I don't have enough money. I only have sixty euros on me.

Panel 13 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Well… Sixty for both. But I can't go any lower!”
  1. Vendedor

    Bueno… Sesenta por los dos. ¡Pero menos no puedo!

    Well… Sixty for both. But I can't go any lower!

Panel 14 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “Two leather bags for sixty euros! In any store they cost more than a hundred.”
  1. Pablo

    ¡Dos bolsos de cuero por sesenta euros! En cualquier tienda valen más de cien.

    Two leather bags for sixty euros! In any store they cost more than a hundred.

Panel 15 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “All right, I'll take both. Thanks a million!”
  1. Ana

    De acuerdo, me llevo los dos. ¡Un millón de gracias!

    All right, I'll take both. Thanks a million!

Panel 16 of 16 for “Can you give me a discount?”: “You haggled in Spanish! Now let's go find a pair of sneakers for me: you haggle better than I do.”
  1. Pablo

    ¡Has regateado en español! Ahora vamos a buscar un par de zapatillas para mí: regateas mejor que yo.

    You haggled in Spanish! Now let's go find a pair of sneakers for me: you haggle better than I do.

Grammar for this text

Comparing. Más barato que el marrón — "cheaper than the brown one". No es tan bonito como el marrón — "it's not as nice as the brown one". Mejor and peor ("better" and "worse") don't need más: la calidad es peor, regateas mejor que yo (after que comes yo). Mucho makes it stronger: mucho mejor — "much better".

El marrón, los dos. Spanish doesn't repeat bolso; only the article stays: el marrón — "the brown one", los dos — "both of them". Where English adds "one", Spanish needs nothing.

Más de cien. Before a number, use de, not que: más de cien — "more than a hundred".

How to haggle. ¿Me hace un descuento? — "Can you give me a discount?" (formal, the usted form). ¿Y si me llevo dos? — "What if I take two?"; in a store me llevo means "I'll take, I'll buy". Menos no puedo — "I can't go any lower". Haggling is fine at a mercadillo; in stores with price tags people don't haggle.

Has regateado — "you haggled": the present perfect from unit 2.

Words and grammar of the unit: Compare prices and haggle.

Learn the words from the texts with flashcards

In the app, you can tap any word in a text to see its translation, forms and examples, and new words stick with flashcards. 15 minutes a day.

Start for free

Everything is open for free. No card needed to sign up.