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"How much is this?"
Translation:これはいくらですか？
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If I remember correctly, この needs a noun following after it. So you can say この つくえ わ いくらですか (How much is this desk?) But not この わ... without a noun. If you don't want to specify, you need これ.
Yes, は not わ. And you are right の acts like a possessive marker in this and you can't possess a particle (は) you can only posess nouns.
because は sounds like "ha" when used as a word, but "wa" when used as a particle.
The phrase "the guessing game" implies that a person does not know the answer. By choosing their answers randomly, also known as guessing, they are hoping to get the correct answer.
I hope that makes sense.
Should I say 'It's the first time I hear the word "guessing game".?
...your name...
I ommited the これは and it marked me wrong, even though it's understood by context and no one really says it while asking for the price of a particular thing since it's implied by context
I think you're right that in typical situations you would be fine to omit the これは as the context would probably be understood, however since we're translating a single sentence without context here we need to take some extra care.
For this example, the sentence "How much is this?" tells the reader that the speaker is probably holding or pointing to an object that is close to them.
The sentence「これはいくらですか。」tells us this same information with the use of これ.
If you only write 「いくらですか」 then we lose that information. It might not seem like a big deal right now but trying to be as accurate as possible with translations early on will probably help a lot later on in your studies. Let's all keep doing our best!
