Price of vs price for?

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"Price for a bike is 1000 dollars" vs "Price of a bike is 1000 dollars"What are the differences between those two?

Philip · Accepted Answer

Just off the top of my head: the price of something vs. the price to do something.
The price of the one-way ticket is €10. You have to pay more to go round-trip.

You'll see lots of comments about this, I'm sure.

Anonymous · Answer

So if we want to say how much something costs, we should use "of", and when we want to say how much you need to pay for something in order to get it, we use "for"? Am I correct?

Also, my example sentences would be correct either with "of or with "for"? Because with my first sentence I would say how much someone needs to pay for it in order to get it, and with my second sentence I would just say how much it costs.

Yes or no?

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousThe price for a bike is 1000 dollars.

I find this one somewhat unnatural. It's like an abbreviated form of the rather wordy sentence

The price (that you have to pay in exchange) for a bike is $1000.

It emphasizes the exchange of one thing ($1000) for another (a bike).

But 'price' itself already implies 'exchange price', so it's unnecessary to draw attention to the exchange aspects of any purchase.

AnonymousThe price of a bike is 1000 dollars.

This one, as corrected, is more natural. Here the price is regarded as something that is conceptually attached to the bike. You can even paraphrase it as

The price [attached to / associated with] a bike is $1000.

This makes more sense to me in the situation where things for sale have prices.

CJ

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