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In my bad german, "wieviel kosten du?", rather than "wieviel kosten das?" as I recall :)
The look that I got in return was sometime else entirely...Yes, that would have raised a few eyebrows.
"Wieviel kostest du?"
"Wieviel kostet das?""Kosten" (I'm only spelling it with a capital here as it is at the beginning of the sentence) is either the infinitive, third person plural ("sie kosten"), or polite form ("Sie kosten").
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Or the first person plural form ("wir kosten")
Or the end of the word "Nebenkosten" (≈ extra costs)
Or the middle of the made-up word "Seebärkostenabrechnung" (calculating the costs of a sea lion)
Or the middle of the made up word "Feinkostengel" ("fine food angel")
Or the middle of the made-up nonsense word "Bankostentschlüsselung" ("bank east decoding")
In my bad german, "wieviel kosten du?", rather than "wieviel kosten das?" as I recall :)
The look that I got in return was sometime else entirely...