How Much Wine Do You Want?

Introduction

This post is about volumes in general, and fractions of a litre in particular.

SCENARIO

Imagine you are at your local bodega or supermarket where you are trying to buy some wine.

After exchanging the customary greetings, vine merchant says to you: how much wine do you want?

In Spanish, the merchant could choose to be less formal and say:

¿Cuánto vino quieres?

In Spanish, the merchant could choose to be more formal and say:

¿Cuánto vino quiere?

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OUR TIP

Answering the question should be quite straightforward. You may need to be careful with the units of volume to make sure that you get the correct amount of wine. The notes below* should help you male sure of that

With that in mind, you could say:

• Quería una botella de vino (I want a bottle of wine)
• Quería un cuarto de litro de vino (I want a quarter of a litre of wine)
• Quería medio de litro de vino (I want half a litre of wine)
• Quería tres cuartos de litro de vino (I want three quarters of a litre of wine)
• Quería un litro de vino (I want a litre of wine)
• Quería un litro y medio de vino (I want one and a half litres of wine)
• Quería dos litros de vino (I want two litres of wine)

Now you should practise answering the question:

¿Cuánto vino quieres?

*See some commonly used volumes in Spanish below

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*Spanish Volumes

Some expressions of volumes commonly used when shopping in Spanish are shown below:

	Mililitros	Centilitros	Litros
cien mililitros diez centilitros	100ml	10cl
ciento cincuenta mililitros quince centilitros	150ml	15cl
doscientos mililitros veinte centilitros	200ml	20cl
doscientos cincuenta mililitros veinticinco centilitros un cuarto de litro	250ml	25cl	¼l
trescientos mililitros treinta centilitros	300ml	30cl
trescientos treinta mililitros treinta y tres centilitros	330ml	33cl
cuatrocientos mililitros cuarenta centilitros	400ml	40cl
quinientos mililitros cincuenta centilitros medio litro	500ml	50cl	½l
seiscientos mililitros sesenta centilitros	600ml	60cl
setecientos mililitros setenta centilitros	700ml	70cl
setecientos cincuenta mililitros setenta y cinco centilitros tres cuartos de litro	750ml	75cl	¾l
ochocientos mililitros ochenta centilitros	800ml	80cl
novecientos mililitros noventa centilitros	900ml	90cl
mil mililitros cien centilitros un litro	1,000ml	100cl	1l

Notes

Volumes expressed in millilitres (ml) and especially under 100 millilitres (cien mililitros) are more common in perfumes and such like

Approximate relationships to some commonly used UK & US units of volume are shown below:

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