かかる【かかる (Time / Price)】

The verb かかる is used to express that something takes time or costs money. It describes the amount of time or money required for something.

Time: how long something takes

To say how long something takes, use the pattern Time + かかる.

The particle に can mark the destination or purpose, while the time expression typically appears without a particle (or with the particle が when emphasizing the time itself).

Price: how much something costs

To say how much something costs, use the pattern Amount of money + かかる.

The particle に is used to mark what the money is spent on.

Key points

• どのくらい (how long / how much) and いくら (how much money) are used with かかる in questions.

• The subject (time or money) is often marked with が:

  おかねお金がたくさんかかる。

  It costs a lot of money.
  じかんがかかる時間がかかる。

  It takes time.

• かかる conjugates as a regular godan verb: かかります (polite), かかった (past), かかりません (negative polite), etc.