Sharing food costs · Food and eating
pay separately
pay individual shares
If people pay separately, each person pays for their own food or drinks.
This vs that
We paid separately.
We split the bill.
Hear it in real life
Should I put the whole bill on my card?
No, we'll pay separately.
There are four of us, and we'd like to pay separately, please.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
This is the short, polite phrase people use when asking for separate bills.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Can we pay separate?
Say: Can we pay separately?
Use the adverb 'separately' after 'pay'.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
pay separately; ask to pay separately
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about sharing food costs.
I'll get this
I'll get this; you can pay next time.
Sharing food costs words
Food and eating · Sharing food costs: the words around “pay separately”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
Could we pay separately, please?
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
pay separately
pay individual shares
“There are four of us, and we'd like to pay separately, please.”
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