Dinero que hay que pagar por algo.
Money you have to pay for something.
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See how the word “precio” is used in sentences
El precio del billete subió otra vez. — The price of the ticket went up again.
¿Cuál es el precio de este celular? — What is the price of this cell phone?
Los precios de la comida bajaron un poco. — Food prices went down a little.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testSpanish keeps three words apart where English lets price and cost slide into each other. Precio is the number on the tag, what the buyer hands over. Coste — costo in Latin America — is what the thing costs to make or to run. Valor is what it is worth, which need be neither of the first two.
In a shop the ordinary question uses the verb: ¿cuánto cuesta? ¿Qué precio tiene? is correct and a shade more deliberate. One phrase to watch: at any cost is a toda costa, with yet another word again. A cualquier precio also exists, but it means paying whatever is asked rather than stopping at nothing.
coste cost
What something costs to produce or to keep running. Costo in Latin America, coste in Spain.
valor value
What a thing is worth. A painting can have enormous valor and no precio at all until it is sold.
tarifa rate, fare
A published price for a service — a fare, a tariff, an hourly rate. Not used of goods on a shelf.
descuento discount
Taken off the precio, never off the coste.
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