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stotinka

stotinka

9.9
A small Bulgarian coin worth one hundredth of a lev
  • noun
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  • The price of the item is 50 stotinki.

Examples

  • She handed over a few stotinki to the cashier for the newspaper.

  • I found a stotinka on the ground.

  • Coins of one stotinka are rarely used in daily transactions.

  • The price of the postcard was fifty stotinka.

  • The cost of a cup of coffee is about two stotinki in Bulgaria.

  • He saved a few stotinki for the bus fare.

  • I paid with three stotinki for the sweet bun.

Surface Forms

stotinka singular
stotinki plural

Etymology

Stotinka comes from the Slavic number root sto, which means 'hundred'. Like a 'cent', a stotinka is 'one hundredth' of a lev, so the name tells you its value.