Re: CHAT: San Marino
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 0:18 |
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
>When quoting a price, the unit of currency is not pluralized: (How much is
>this?)
>
>zwei Mark
>zwei Dollar
>zwei Pfund
This, of course, is the thing that will seem odd in English (and
Spanish and Portuguese (as far as I know) and Italian and Greek).
All of these certainly have a plural form for their currency;
and at least Spanish and English use it when quoting prices.
>I could swear that my native speaker German tutor back in Taiwan said the
>plural for Euro was Euros. So again, how much?
The notes will all say 5, 10, etc. euro.
Doubly odd in nongerman languages!
Padraic.
>Kou