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Old July 20, 2011, 12:45 PM
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I believe I have heard both when someone asks the price of something. Do they have a different meanings?
Yes you can use them when you are asking the cost of some product in the store, these phrase are authentic from México.


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Old July 20, 2011, 05:45 PM
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I sent a question to the Spanish Royal Academy about these expressions, asking them if they were inappropriate or incorrect. I got the answer today. This is it:


Consulta RAE (gramatical | construcciones | ser/estar 'valer': ¿A cómo/a cuánto...?)
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:22 A

En relación con su consulta, le remitimos la siguiente información:

La actual edición del Diccionario académico recoge, en la entrada del verbo ser, como octava acepción, la intransitiva 'valer, costar', e incluye el siguiente ejemplo: ¿A cómo es la merluza?

Por otra parte, la fórmula interrogativa ¿a cuánto? se emplea para interrogar sobre el precio de algo: «¿A cuánto está el pescado?» (RRosa Sebastián [Guat. 1994]).


Como puede usted comprobar, se trata, por tanto, de dos construcciones asentadas en nuestro idioma y que se pueden considerar perfectamente normales y admisibles desde el punto de vista de la norma culta del español general estándar.


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