"I paid two thousand yen at the restaurant."

Translation: レストランで二千円払いました。

[KyrokiKaze]

Should 二千円 have a particle after it before the verb?

[somebody959678]

Yes, を is grammatically correct, but usually omitted. When speaking, を is very commonly omitted from almost everything. The only verb that I can think of that grammatically shouldn't use を is かかる, as in 時間/円 かかる。

[JoshuaLore9]

My guess is probably not, but because I learned my Japanese conversationally, I'm curious whether this is just commonly omitted and in fact grammatically required, it's grammatically incorrect to have a particle, or it doesn't matter either way.

[Alaric714771]

払い is pronounced はらい、right? Is anyone else hearing the dude say ばらい instead?

[JoshuaLore9]

You're right, it should be はらいました.

I actually hear わらいました but I think that's a defect with the TTS being forced to pronounce は as わ, which is only supposed to happen when は is being used as a particle... (笑)

[kurokumo4]

Yep. I hear it too. I think TTS software treated 円払い as a single word (dunno, "yen payment" maybe?) and thought that rendaku occurred there, of course being totally wrong.
It is read as レストラン・で・に・せん・えん・はらいました。

[GhBar]

Is word order important here? Can you switch レストランで and 二千円？

[JoshuaLore9]

You can indeed do that, and it wouldn't change the meaning at all.

[denimbluesky]

Would レストランに also be acceptable

[Eugene838528]

So. Is it 'harai' or 'barai'? I'm so confused!