paisa

IPA/ˈpaɪsɑː/
IPA/ˈpaɪsɑː/

paisa — 名詞

  • paisasingular
  • paisasplural

1. a small coin used in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, worth one-hundredth

1.名詞
釋義

派薩；分

南亞貨幣，盧比的百分之一

a small coin used in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, worth one-hundredth of one rupee (or, in Bangladesh, one taka); the irregular plural form is 'paise'.

例句

The shopkeeper in Mumbai dropped a single paisa into the wooden donation box.

Mumbai 那位店主把一枚派薩投進了木製的捐款箱。

countable singular: a / one paisa

Anika counted fifty paise in copper coins on her grandmother's kitchen table.

Anika 在祖母的廚房桌上數出五十派薩的銅板。

irregular plural form: paise

常見搭配
  • a few paise
  • fifty paise
  • twenty-five paise coin
  • paise to a rupee
同義詞
  • cent

    the equivalent in dollar-based currencies — same '1/100 of the main unit' role

  • penny

    British and Irish equivalent in pence-based currencies

文法句型

a paisa / one paisa

fifty paise (plural)

用法筆記

Singular form is 'paisa'; plural is the irregular 'paise', not 'paisas'. When used before another noun (e.g. 'a fifty-paisa coin'), the singular form stays even with a number greater than one.

常見錯誤

I gave him five paisas.
I gave him five paise.
the plural is 'paise', not 'paisas'.
a hundred paise coin
a hundred-paise coin' or 'a one-rupee coin
when modifying a noun, hyphenate; but 100 paise are usually called a rupee.

同根字

  • paise
    noun (plural)
  • rupee
    名詞B2

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • paisa coin
  • paise per rupee

常用片語

  • a few paise
  • every last paisa
  • down to the last paisa

介系詞搭配

  • in paise
  • to the paisa