Topic: Romanian

"un leu, doi lei"

Translation:a lion, two lions

11/16/2016, 1:00:37 PM

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leu is also the Romanian money

11/16/2016, 1:00:37 PM
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And the Moldovan currency is also called leu and lei in plural

11/17/2016, 1:50:46 PM
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Shouldn't "One leu, two leus" be accepted as well?

11/16/2016, 5:48:16 PM
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No, because that's Romglish, not Romanian.

11/19/2016, 9:58:10 AM
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Then what would you call the Romanian/Moldovan currency in English?

12/3/2016, 6:50:02 PM
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Lei! (Or in commerce RON - for Romanian New Lei, as opposed to ROL, the old Romanian Lei before revaluation.) Bulgaria also uses lions for currency - Bulgarian Leva (лев is the old Bulgarian word for lion.)

10/24/2018, 7:29:01 PM
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no

11/18/2016, 10:22:15 AM
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Dolla dolla bill y'all

8/24/2018, 1:45:59 PM
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