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Beginner Spanish · Shopping and stores
Shopping in Spanish
Shopping Spanish becomes much easier when you can say what you are looking for, ask whether something is available, find the right part of the store, and handle a simple return or exchange.
Your next small win: ask for help in a store, say what you are looking for, ask about availability, find a fitting room, and request a return or exchange.
Start with the store
Core Shopping Vocabulary
These words help you talk about places, products, and people during a shopping trip.
Store / shop
Supermarket
Shopping mall
Market
Product
Store employee
Name four shopping words
Say “store, supermarket, market, and product” in Spanish.
Tienda, supermercado, mercado y producto.
Ask for help finding something
Estoy Buscando...
Use estoy buscando to tell a store employee what you are looking for.
I'm looking for a jacket.
I'm looking for a gift.
I'm looking for a gift for my sister.
Where can I find this?
Can you help me?
Useful pattern: after estoy buscando, add the thing you need: un regalo, una farmacia, una chaqueta, or another product.
Asking for help
Excuse me, can you help me?
Of course. What are you looking for?
I'm looking for a gift for my sister.
Ask for shopping help
Ask for help, then say that you are looking for a gift.
¿Me puede ayudar?
Estoy buscando un regalo.
Ask what the store has
Sizes, Colors, and Availability
Use tener to ask whether the store has an item, size, or color. Use disponible to talk about availability.
Do you have this in another size?
Do you have it in another color?
Do you have this model in blue?
That model is not available.
Where are the fitting rooms?
Can I try it on?
Checking availability
Excuse me, do you have this shirt in a larger size?
Yes, we have one size larger.
Thank you. Where are the fitting rooms?
Check two options
Ask whether the store has the item in another size and another color.
¿Tiene esto en otra talla?
¿Lo tienen en otro color?
Clothing fit language
This jacket fits me well.
These pants are too big for me.
This size is too small for me.
Clothing note: detailed clothing vocabulary and fit belong mainly in the clothing lesson. Here, these phrases are included only because they are useful during a store interaction.
Change your mind or change the item
Returns and Exchanges
Use devolver for returning an item and cambiar for exchanging it for something else.
To return
To exchange / change
I'd like to return this.
Can I exchange this product?
I'd like to exchange this for another size.
Useful contrast: devolver means returning the item. cambiar means exchanging or changing it for another option.
Returning or exchanging an item
I'd like to return this jacket.
Would you prefer to return it or exchange it for another one?
I'd prefer to exchange it for a smaller size.
Request an exchange
Say that you would like to exchange the item for another size.
Quisiera cambiar esto por otra talla.
Your turn · 8 quick questions
Practice: Shopping
Choose the answer that best fits each situation. Focus on finding products, availability, store help, fitting rooms, returns, and exchanges.
Practice complete
You can handle several basic shopping situations in Spanish.
A few shopping phrases to revisit
One last step: handle a store visit without choices.
Ask for help, say what you are looking for, ask whether it is available in another option, and request an exchange.
Disculpe, ¿me puede ayudar?
Estoy buscando una chaqueta.
¿Lo tienen en otro color?
Quisiera cambiar esto por otra talla.
You want to tell an employee that you are looking for a gift. Which sentence fits?
- Estoy buscando un regalo.
- Estoy cambiando un regalo.
- Estoy devolviendo un regalo.
- Estoy probando un regalo.
Estoy buscando means “I'm looking for.”
Estoy buscando un regalo.
You want to know where you can find an item. What do you ask?
- ¿Dónde puedo encontrar esto?
- ¿Dónde puedo devolver esto?
- ¿Dónde están los probadores?
- ¿Lo tienen en otro color?
¿Dónde puedo encontrar esto? asks where an item can be found.
¿Dónde puedo encontrar esto?
You want to know whether the store has the item in another size. Which question fits?
- ¿Tiene esto en otra talla?
- ¿Lo tienen en otro color?
- ¿Me lo puedo probar?
- ¿Puedo cambiar este producto?
Otra talla means “another size.”
¿Tiene esto en otra talla?
You want the same model in a different color. What do you ask?
- ¿Lo tienen en otro color?
- ¿Tiene esto en otra talla?
- ¿Dónde puedo encontrar esto?
- ¿Está disponible esta talla?
¿Lo tienen en otro color? asks whether the item is available in a different color.
¿Lo tienen en otro color?
You need the fitting rooms. What do you ask?
- ¿Dónde están los probadores?
- ¿Dónde está la caja?
- ¿Dónde puedo encontrar esto?
- ¿Dónde está el empleado?
Probadores means “fitting rooms.”
¿Dónde están los probadores?
The employee says the model is not in stock. Which sentence fits?
- Ese modelo no está disponible.
- Ese modelo me queda bien.
- Ese modelo está en el probador.
- Ese modelo es otra talla.
No está disponible means that something is not available or not in stock.
Ese modelo no está disponible.
You want to return an item. Which request fits?
- Quisiera devolver esto.
- Quisiera probarme esto.
- Quisiera buscar esto.
- Quisiera encontrar esto.
Devolver means “to return.”
Quisiera devolver esto.
You want to exchange the item for another size. Which sentence fits?
- Quisiera cambiar esto por otra talla.
- Quisiera devolver esto sin cambiarlo.
- Quisiera probar esto en otro color.
- Quisiera buscar otro producto.
Cambiar algo por otra talla means to exchange something for another size.
Quisiera cambiar esto por otra talla.