Chapter 16 – Shopping
Overview
Chapter 16 develops practical Nepali for everyday shopping situations, with a strong focus on asking prices, comparing options, and buying items politely and confidently. You will learn high-frequency shopping vocabulary (common items, quantities, and money words) and use it to ask “How much is it?” and understand simple price answers. You will practise choosing between options using ki (“this or that?”), asking if an item is available, and requesting what you want using polite request forms. The chapter also introduces very useful shop language for quantities (how many / how much), totals (“How much altogether?”), and simple bargaining phrases for beginners (e.g., asking politely if it can be a little cheaper). By the end of the chapter, you should be able to complete a short, realistic shop interaction: greet, ask for an item, check availability, ask the price, choose, request a quantity, add one more item, and ask for the total.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- use common shopping vocabulary in simple, everyday sentences (items, shop words, money words)
- ask and answer price questions using kati parcha? (“How much does it cost?”)
- ask about availability and options in a shop and make a choice using ki (“X or Y?”)
- request items politely using practical ordering language (e.g., “Please give me…”)
- ask for and state quantities clearly (e.g., kati waṭā? kati kilo?)
- ask for the total and understand a basic total statement (jammā kati rupaiyā̃ bhayo?)
- add an extra item using pani (“also”) and respond to arū kehi cāhincha? (“Anything else?”)
- use one or two beginner-friendly, polite discount phrases (e.g., ali sastō huncha?) appropriately
- participate in a short, respectful shopping exchange from start to finish with confidence
