Re: CHAT: San Marino

From: "John Cowan"

> > German has Auto > Autos. Why not Euro > Euros (Obviously pronounced
/Ojro/ -
> > /Ojros/)
>
> Quite possible.  But German doesn't pluralize a noun after a number
> (nor does any Germanic language IIRC except English):
Sure it does (they do): ein Hund > zwei Hunde, ein Mann > vier Männer, and
so on.

"ein Meter, zwei
> Meter" is normal for "one meter, two meters".  Therefore, "1 Euro,
> 2 Euro" seems very natural in German but not in English.
The reason "Meter" doesn't seem to change here is because most nouns ending
in -er, -el, or -en don't take a plural ending (though occasionally there's
some umlaut action):

ein Fenster > zwei Fenster
ein Zimmer > fünf Zimmer
ein Garten > zwei Gärten
eine Mutter > zehn Mütter

When quoting a price, the unit of currency is not pluralized: (How much is
this?)

zwei Mark
zwei Dollar
zwei Pfund

Outside of price, I'm not sure whether one uses the plural or not:

Es gibt zwei Pfunde auf dem Tisch. or Es gibt zwei Pfund auf dem Tisch.

for "There are two pounds on the table." ???

Personally, I like the first one better, but, natch,  I'm not a native
speaker.

I could swear that my native speaker German tutor back in Taiwan said the
plural for Euro was Euros. So again, how much?

Zwei Euro zwölf.

But maybe:

Ich habe fünf Euros in meiner Tasche.  ???

Kou