c¿cuánto cuesta? / KWAN-to KWEST-ah / how much does this cost?
Yes, it will require you being able to parse some numbers, and maybe I should put those into this entry as well, but you’ll want this easy phrase to ask how much things are like: bags of crickets from grandmas in doorways, weird fruit from market vendors, quesadillas from street merchants, wrestling masks from the vendors around Arena Mexico — I think you get my point.
veinte (twenty)
cincuenta (fifty)
ochenta (eighty)
treinta (thirty)
sesenta (sixty)
noventa (ninety)
cuarenta (forty)
setenta (seventy)
cien (hundred)
Cien is exactly one hundred. Any other number will use ciento (doscientos is 200, for example). Our address, should you need to tell a cabby or end up inviting weird people back to the apartment, is Avenida Sonora Ciento Treinta y Cuatro.
H will say “don’t put ideas in their heads” but you know it could happen.