"Det kostar hundra kronor."

Translation: It costs a hundred kronor.

[Laski-Julle]

Can't I write "It costs hundred kronas."? Duolingo accepts "krona", so "kronas" should be plural.

[Zmrzlina]

English contexts generally prefers the Swedish plural kronor or the translated crowns.

[AlbinoKiwi21]

Really? I didn't know that. Despite reading quite a lot of scandi fiction... I wonder if there's any way there could be an info bubble about this. I was sad too... Thanks for giving me the info, Zmrzlina

[EduardoAzeredoS]

What would you but with a hundred kronor?

[chimpy101]

A sandwich at Stockholm airport...

[NathanHill16]

According to what I've been able to find: A cheapish restaurant meal, a medium-to-nice bottle of wine, a taxi ride, or a cinema ticket.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Sweden

[bobi32]

An english-related question: is the translation “crown” commonly used? I know that in french you use quite exclusively the translation « couronne » for thrice swedish, danish and norwegian “crowns” (and certainly others that I don't know of), but seeing it by default untranslated on Duolingo (though “crown” seems always accepted) make me doubt about english.

[NathanHill16]

I would say "Krona" is more common. It's hardly scientific, but "Swedish krona" has about 22 million hits on Google to less than a million for "Swedish crowns". The results on the search page for "crowns" is generally all to pages that are titled "Krona" , until you get down to the coat of arms. That said, I think English ears tend to think krona as plural- I've never heard anyone say "kronas", let alone "kronor". If anything, I would not be surprised to hear someone refer to one krona as "one krone".

[Beanybadger]

I would tend to use 'crown' as a catch-all for various currencies whose names mean that

[BarbaraMorris]

I use "kroner" as the plural for "krona", although I don't recall where I picked up either "krona" or "kroner". For sure it was before I started this course. "kroner" isn't accepted here, although (I think?) it would be valid if this were a course in Norwegian or Danish.

[asarnoh]

Sv: en krona(-or), No/Dk: en krone(-er)

[Steph927304]

Are you trying to educate people into saying "krona" and "kronor" while speaking english? That seems odd to me. In french I've always heard and talked about "couronnes" for "kronor".

[ex0mo]

Actually when I was in Sweden and talked to people in English, I usually said krona just because I think it's weird to translate a currency. When talking about the thing a king wears on his head I'd say crown of course.

[mavis177997]

I think "It costs a hundred crowns" is correct as well

[rusty401767]

Isn't one hundred the same as a hundred