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Money and shopping

Most words related to money and shopping are based on two roots: moni is money, price, cost and payment at once, and kompar is the exchange (buying and selling).

The money words

• moni money, price, cost
• kompar buy, sell, trade

Most money-related words are compounds of these:

Note: pikomoni is about the price and nothing else. For cheap in the sense of badly made, say marum.

How much?

Ask with ker moni what money, in the slot the price will come back in.

The answer is a number, with moni after it if the unit is not already obvious.

moni means whatever the local currency is. Pikotika has no specific words for dollars, pesos, yen, etc. A price in a shop is always something like 7 moni, and this means seven dollars, seven euros, etc.

When you need to be more specific, put the country name before moni. It acts as an adjective to make, for example, "Canadian money".

Prices themselves are ordinary numbers; see Numbers for saying them aloud.

Buying, selling, and shop hours

kompar means both "buy" and "sell"; context generally makes it clear which English word would apply.

To make it clearer, indicate the direction of the transaction with vons from (i.e. buying from the seller) or ver to (selling to the customer).

A shop opens and closes with apa begin, open and vin finish, close.

Paying

To pay is to give money: tonar a moni.

How you pay is described with in … moto.

Other useful phrases

A whole conversation

Alice and Mary are in a clothing store.

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