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/sɑ̃.tɛn/
Translation
about a hundred, a hundred or so
Word origin
From cent ('hundred') plus the collective suffix -aine, which turns a number into an approximate group, as in dizaine and douzaine. Cent itself comes from Latin centum.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- cent + -aine
- English cognates
- cent, century, percent
Grammar
Examples
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There are about a hundred people in the room.
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Hundreds of people were waiting outside the cinema.
'euros.
This book costs a hundred euros or so.
cette .
She wrote about a hundred letters this year.
, .
We count in hundreds, not in thousands.
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