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# euro

«euro» in Mova's school dictionary: **the money used in many countries of the European Union…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a euro, euros)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The euro is the money used in many countries of the European Union, such as Ireland, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Its sign is €. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#m1)

2) A euro is one unit of this money; one euro is 100 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths money problems pupils add and subtract euros and cents; in everyday life in Ireland prices are in euros. Phrases: «a euro coin», «euros and cents», «five euros», «€2».

### examples

- The ice cream costs two euros. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x1)
- In Ireland we pay in euros. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x2)
- One euro is worth a hundred cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x3)
- I saved twenty euros for the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x4)
- The euro sign looks like a «C» with two lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x5)
- Eight euros minus three euros fifty is four euros fifty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x6)
- When we went to France, Dad changed pounds into euros. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/#x7)

### note

Starts with a «you» sound, so «a euro», not «an euro». Plural «euros». Write the sign before the number: €5. The UK uses pounds, not euros. In maths, 100 cents = 1 euro, so €1.25 means one euro and twenty-five cents.

### In the corpora

- [cent ("sahn") means a hundred; a euro cent is called un centime ("sahn-TEEM").](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/12/)
- [Ireland and many other European countries use the euro (€); 100 cents make one euro.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/8/)
- [About twenty European countries, including Ireland, France and Spain, share one currency, the euro.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «euro» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/euro/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.