sene
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A small unit of money equal to one hundredth of a tala
- noun
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sene
- I paid 200 senes for my lunch today.
Examples
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The price of the fruit is 50 sene.
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I exchanged twenty sene at the local currency exchange for my trip to Samoa.
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He exchanged his dollars for sene and tala at the airport.
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In Samoa, ten sene coins are commonly used for small purchases.
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The price was listed as five tala and twenty sene.
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Each tala is equivalent to one hundred sene, the basic currency unit in Samoa.
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When I went shopping in Apia, I had to convert my dollars into sene to pay for my purchases.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sene is the Samoan name for a coin worth 'one-hundredth' of a tala, and the word comes from the English cent, which was adapted to Samoan sounds. A helpful way to remember it is to think of sene as the Samoan 'cent' — the small part of a tala.
