pfennig
noun
a copper-coated iron coin and monetary unit of Germany until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a Deutsche mark.
pfennigs
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pluralof pfennig.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The war was half- forgotten for the Americans in 1955, but for one of the former prisoners, Hans Richter, 60, that was the year he fled East Germany with 60 pfennigs in his pocket.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag in 1907.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a German piece of twenty pfennigs, such as any one on the ship might have used.
From The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue by Burton Egbert Stevenson
