pfennig
Americannoun
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pfennigs,
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pfennige
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a copper-coated iron coin and monetary unit of Germany until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a Deutsche mark.
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(formerly) a minor coin and monetary unit of East Germany, one 100th of an ostmark.
noun
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a former German monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Deutschmark
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(formerly) a monetary unit worth one hundredth of an East German ostmark
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pfennig
First recorded in 1540–50; from German: penny
Example Sentences
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Jürgen Klopp should therefore decide to make do, and spend every precious pfennig of his summer pot on a top-drawer replacement for the woefully erratic Dejan Lovren instead.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2017
Maybe the pfennig will drop and he’ll resort to putting his German center half up front in the waning minutes.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2011
Since then the German buildup has lagged; the allied troops have had to stay on but the Germans have begrudged every pfennig the allies asked for their support.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of them are secondhand, all the classics for example, one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Nickel coins are 10 and 5 pfennige pieces, and there are bronze coins of 2 and 1 pfennige.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
In reckoning the standard or alloy, the weight system was— For silver—1 mark = 12 pfennige or deniers.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Subsequently this order was changed to the effect that every one who could or would not work must pay ten pfennige.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Then they again offered me the indulgence, but in this way: I was to buy it with six pfennige, and these pfennige were to be returned to me for myself.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
Thaler to be subdivided into 30 groschens 12 pfennige; the latter tenderable only up to 1⁄6 thaler.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Breakfast from 6am to 1pm, 75 pfennigs, one cup of coffee…
From Economist ● Mar. 8, 2018
Regardless, the value of the 1936 Olympic Games couldn’t be measured in marks and pfennigs.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2018
Those things were substitutes for hydrogen, substitutes for pfennigs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite rosebuds and smiling salesclerks, they pinch their pfennigs.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one point a number of girls pressed round the carriages offering glasses of milk at 20 pfennigs.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
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