expensive
gb/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/ us/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
A2
Inglese
~ 1700
drága
A2
1
drága
A1
Schema d'uso:
[something] is expensive
This watch is too expensive for me to buy.
Ez az óra túl drága ahhoz, hogy megvegyem.
We stayed at an expensive hotel by the beach.
Egy drága tengerparti szállodában szálltunk meg.
Organic food can be more expensive than regular food.
He bought her an expensive piece of jewelry.
Eating out every night is becoming expensive.
Esempi per chi studia
The shoes are expensive.
A cipők drágák.
This phone is very expensive.
Ez a telefon nagyon drága.
That restaurant is expensive.
Her dress looks expensive.
Errore comune:
Learners sometimes confuse 'expensive' with 'valuable'; 'valuable' means worth a lot, but not necessarily costly to buy.
Significato
costing a lot of money
Collocazioni
expensive car
|expensive restaurant
|expensive clothes
|expensive gift
|expensive habit
Sinonimi
costly (Slightly more formal; can also imply figurative cost such as effort or loss.)
|
pricey (Informal; often used in casual conversation.)
Contrari
cheap (Implies low price, sometimes with the connotation of low quality.)
|
inexpensive (Neutral term for low price without implying poor quality.)
Temi
shopping
|economy
|daily life
|daily_life
|finance
|core_vocabulary
Definizione
Costing a lot of money.
Having a high price or requiring a large amount of money to buy or use.
Grammatica
Forma base
expensive
IPA
GB/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
US/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
Sillabe e accento
ex - pens - ive (3 sillabe)
Stress on 2nd syllable (pens)
Forme flesse
Adjective
- Base: expensive
Famiglia di parole
Core family
expense
noun B1
expensively
adverb
Negative and opposite forms
inexpensive
adjective B1
inexpensively
adverb
Advanced or less common
expenditure
noun B2
expend
verb B2
Espressioni
at an expensive price
1/ˈæt ən ɪkspˈɛnsɪv pɹˈaɪs/
fixed phrase
paying a lot of money for something
Paying a lot of money to get something.
Esempi
- He got the tickets at an expensive price because he bought them late.
- They managed to buy the house, but at an expensive price.
make [something] expensive
1/mˈeɪk sˈʌmθɪŋ ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
fixed phrase
cause something's cost to be high
To cause the price of something to be high.
Esempi
- High demand can make housing expensive in big cities.
- Import taxes make these goods expensive.
too expensive for [someone]
1/tˈu ɪkspˈɛnsɪv fɚ sˈʌmwˌʌn/
fixed phrase
cost more than someone can afford
Costing more money than someone can pay or wants to pay.
Esempi
- That car is too expensive for me.
- This holiday is too expensive for most families.