"Zbývá osm set osmnáct korun."
Translation:Eight hundred and eighteen crowns is left.
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I cannot believe "... crowns is left" is correct, I would have said ".... crowns are left".
Grammatically the use of the singular verb is correct. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/ See #7
My own instinct is to pluralize it, and I think colloquially a lot of people would.
We do accept the plural verb, but the singular is is preferred.
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This came up in the past. Since a word for word translation is often impossible, I feel that imposing the Czech use of singular verbs when dealing with multiple objects into English is odd at best. At the reference suggested above I find: There were one hundred and thirty-five pieces in the puzzle, which is correct in English.
We would never force Czech grammar in English, that would just be nonsense.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/119536/are-amounts-of-money-singular-or-plural
https://erinwrightwriting.com/use-plural-singular-verbs-money/
https://awelu.srv.lu.se/grammar-and-words/common-problems-and-how-to-avoid-them/subject-verb-agreement/sums-of-money-and-periods-of-time/
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Yes, this was also my first thought. But I'm not a native speaker.
No. When you write numbers you will not learn anything.
