.40

English translation: and 40 bani(s) / point four zero

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English term or phrase:.40
Selected answer:and 40 bani(s) / point four zero
Entered by: Lara Barnett

13:48 Mar 21, 2017
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / Real estate contract
English term or phrase: .40
How would I express the part after the decimal point in English? The original currency was in Romanian lei, though this is irrelevant to the answer here.

2,768.40

I have put two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty) lei

Should I put "point forty" ?
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:53
and 40 bani(s)
Explanation:
1 leu = 100 bani

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Note added at 33 mins (2017-03-21 14:21:48 GMT)
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technically, it would be "and forty hundredths of a leu", but that's an eyeful
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danya
Local time: 11:53
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4 +4and 40 bani(s)
danya
42,768.40 lei (two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight lei and forty bani)
Tony M


Discussion entries: 15





  

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and 40 bani(s)


Explanation:
1 leu = 100 bani

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Note added at 33 mins (2017-03-21 14:21:48 GMT)
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technically, it would be "and forty hundredths of a leu", but that's an eyeful

danya
Local time: 11:53
Does not meet criteria
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, but my question is how to fit this into the format, i.e. the worded amount being enclosed in brackets etc.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Or point four zero.
24 mins
  -> thank you. this would make it simpler with one "lei" after the sequence (unless the asker is allowed to use the currency abbreviation)

agree  Tony M
6 hrs

agree  James A. Walsh
8 hrs

agree  acetran
2 days 23 mins
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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
2,768.40
2,768.40 lei (two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight lei and forty bani)


Explanation:
Regardless of your desire to slavishly follow "the format of the other total amounts in the contract", you simply can't do that, because what you have written is a non-sense! It's like saying "nine hundred and fifty seventy cars"
The only way I can see you can get round it is to write "2,768.40 lei (two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight lei and forty bani)."

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Note added at 1 jour2 heures (2017-03-22 16:47:41 GMT)
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There is no reason why you can't express it like this, which is exactly what you would do in EN if it were to be a currency that uses a symbol like £ / $ / € / ¥ that preceds the figures. There is no rule that says the amount in words must be exactly contiguous with the amount in figures, it's just that in many cases it fortuitously happens that way. And the sense is unambigously clear.

Tony M
France
Local time: 09:53
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PRO pts in category: 52
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