"五百元"
Translation:Five hundred yuan
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I understand that 500 is 五百. And also that 100 is 一百. But in the latter case, can the 一 be omitted? Would 百元 be a correct way of expressing 'one hundred yuan'?
In chinese 百元 is more like a adjective like 百元商店(a store were you buy things all by one hundred dollars from Japan) and 百元大鈔(a banknotr which denomination is one hundred dollars)
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No, at least I think so, I use youtube to improve my pronunciation and I see they are forming 一百the same way, so I'll do it too.
No i take Chinese in school yi is normally one so it will be yi bai (yuan only is what the chinese becuase call money)
I'm confused, last time i used dollars for yuan, and it worked! But know iy didn't..
"Dollars" should be accepted. As you suggest, it's accepted for similar questions where the Chinese uses "元", and native Chinese speakers have commented elsewhere that it's correct.
This is because in the right context, without the need to be explicitly precise, native Chinese speakers would also simply use "元" for American dollars, new Taiwan dollars, or any one of a number of different currencies. The word isn't specific to one particular currency.
Curiously, "$500" is accepted, if written like that with the numbers and the dollar sign.
My question is I know what 五百元 is but Duolingo asked me to translate to English. Why was my answer wrong when I wrote "500 dollars" on one answer and got it wrong the next time? They wanted me to write "500 yuan". It's one or the other Duolingo should not ask to translate to English on one answer and accept it then expect you to just write out what it means in Chinese in the next!
Curiously, "$500" is accepted, if written like that with the numbers and the dollar sign.
Renminbi is the name of the currency and means 'money of the people'. Yuan is the basic unit of the currency, the coin (or banknote).
It's like in the UK the official name of the currency is 'pound sterling' and the coin is called 'pound'. You would never say 'I have 5 pounds sterling' (renminbi), instead you say 'I have 5 pounds' (yuan). So you don't use Renminbi to indicate an amount of money. However, the other way around 'yuan' is used to refer to the currency as a whole, just as pounds is used to refer to the UK's currency (omitting the 'sterling'). Source: wiki.
For DL: forget renminbi and just use yuan.
In common talk between ppl, they usually say: this worth 500 yuan这个500元, nobody will say: this worth 500 RMB 这个500人民币. RMB is more used in financial area. RMB = Ren2Min2Bi4 Ren2Min2: 人民 =people Bi4:币=coin
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Question : Is 元 used only for the chinese yuan, or is it standing for all currency, or do Chinese use symbols for each currency separately ? What about paying with £ English Pound, after you dinne in Chinatown in London ?
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For dollars they use 元 plus the symbol for that country infront of it. E.g. 美元 for American dollars or 澳元 for Australian dollars. But for pounds it's 镑. E.g. 英镑 for British pounds or 埃及镑 for Egyptian pounds.
I typed 500 dollars and it said Five hundred yuan but I typed numbers on everything else and got it correct. Why the sudden change in correction
Instructions were to translate to English, I put my answer as "five hundred dollars" and it was marked incorrect?!?
Did i assume it asked for the English translation as it has been the whole time?! Because "500 dollars" sure seemed like the right answer.
How is it I can put 'dollars' instead of 'yuan' in other answers and get a correct answer, except this one?
It was an English translate so it should be one hundred dollars not one hundred yuan
Doesn't yuan means dollars..... Cause my answer isn't working with 500 dollars
I received a wrong answer for "Five hundred dollars." Up until this point I've used dollars instead of yuan without a problem. Is this just a special case that cannot mean dollars? I'm mightily confused
This exercise is wrong... the audio it is expecting is for 50 yuan and not 500 yuan. That is why it might not be working for you too
I coild write yuan as dollars before,but this time i couldn't???I don't understand why
I dont understand, yuan is Chinese for dollar why is it wrong when I translate the character yuan to dollar like five and hundred?
