In context: Five oh nine
Out of context: Five dollars and nine cents
RowdySpirit•
If someone asks how much an item costs - five oh nine.
If I’m telling a story about the most expensive avocado I’ve ever bought - “Can you believe I paid five dollars and nine cents for it?!?”
lyrasorial•
About five bucks.
LittleNipply•
Five oh nine, or five dollars and nine cents ($5.10 if you pay cash lol).
SnooDonuts6494•
Five dollars and nine cents.
SteampunkExplorer•
Colloquially, "five oh nine". The zero is colloquially called an O (which is pronounced "oh").
Formally, "five dollars and nine cents".
MrWolfy25•
I would say this is 5 dollars and 9 cents
RsonW•
Ooh, I get to slightly deviate.
"Five oh nine" like everyone else.
But "five dollars, nine cents" without an "and".
Numbnipples4u•
I’d like to consider myself fluent in english as a second language, but this is the first time I learned that people say five oh nine
Bitter-Battle-3577•
I'd say "5 dollar 9", though that might be influenced by my native language. (However, if it were simply a number, it'd be "5 point zero 9")
Not_Godot•
"Five oh nine", but realistically, I would just say "five bucks"
EeveeTheFuture•
I would say "Five dollars and nine cent" but dollars aren't my currency and a few people here have said they say "five oh nine" which to me actually sounds like they're saying 509 (five hundred and nine)
If this was written in my currency (GBP) it would read as "Five pound and 9 pee" (pence) or "five pound nine" and if someone did say "five oh nine" that would actually mean ÂŁ509
BooksandStarsNerd•
5 oh 9
Or
5 dollars and 9 cents
Example: your change is 5 oh 9 (hands over money)
Mel-but•
I work in a call centre and read out amounts like this frequently. I would say “five dollars and nine cents”
ZorbaTHut•
Nobody's using "bucks"? I'd say "five bucks nine cents".
Itzcheapluck•
Another way id say it (of course depending on context) is “ five bucks and nine cents”
dorx-r-us•
Five oh nine
dorx-r-us•
Bucks sounds weird to me, like a salty old guy in overalls being funny
AlarmedFisherman5436•
Probably the most formal reading would be “Five dollars and 9 cents”
Depending on the country and region, though, you will probably hear various informal readings such as “five dollars n nine cents” or “five oh nine”
As far as “bucks”, that is usually only used if the dollar amount has no cents. So $5 would be “five bucks”, $10 would be “ten bucks”. You usually don’t hear “bucks” when cents are involved
xouatthemainecoon•
i’m a cashier: 5-oh-9, 5-and-9, 5 dollars 9 cents, 5 dollars and 9 cents.
Alarming_Issue42•
Formal: Five dollars and nine cents.
With context: Five-oh-nine
“That’s gonna be five oh nine”
Or alternatively “That costs five dollars n nine cents.” We would pronounce the “and” as “n”
that-Sarah-girl•
I agree with the five oh nine people and the five dollars and nine cents people.
I've heard five dollar nine cents pretty often at cash registers where there's a line and people are moving fast. But high percentage of people who work cash register jobs in my area are not native English speakers, so that complicates things.
And locally, in low income neighborhoods, I hear five dollar nine cent often, from native speakers.
Five pounds nine makes sense to me. Five dollar nine isn't right.
HeartGlow30797•
I always say it in full: five dollars and nine cents. As a pharmacy tech, meds could be 5.09 or 509, so to avoid confusion and a possible meltdown, I always say it fully.
CoffeeDefiant4247•
5 dollars 9 or if it's gas prices, 5 dollars oh 9, if it's $1 you can just omit the "dollars" and say 1 oh 9. It depends on which countries' English you're learning
rudihatesmilk1918•
Well depends. If it was a number, in a casual way I’d say “five O 9” but in a cash perspective, “5 dollars 9 cent”.
GiveMeTheCI•
Five oh nine
kittenlittel•
I wouldn't say it, because all prices here end in a 5 or a 0. Well, I suppose I would say five ten, actually.