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How to Say ‘Here's twenty-seven euros back.’ in French

Je vous rends vingt-sept euros.

zhuh voo rahn vant-SET uh-roh

[zhuh voo rahn vant-SET uh-roh]

💬 Usage Tip: Rendre means to give back. It's the verb behind rendre la monnaie "to give change".

Phrase Breakdown

Je vous rends

zhuh voo rahn

I give you back

'Rendre' means to give change back. 'Rends' is nasal, 'rahn', and its 'ds' is silent. The French 'r' comes from the throat.

Example

Je vous rends la monnaie.

Here's your change.

Words in this phrase

[zhuh]

Pronoun used by the speaker to identify themselves.

Example

Je suis content.

I am happy.

vous

[voo]

to you

Indirect object pronoun: the person receiving something.

Example

Je vous donne la monnaie.

I give you the change.

rends

[rahn]

give back

From 'rendre'; used for giving change back to a customer.

Example

Je rends la monnaie au client.

I give the change back to the customer.

vingt-sept euros.

vant-SET uh-roh

twenty-seven euros.

Pronounce the 't' in both 'vingt' and 'sept': 'vant-set'. Then link 'sept' to 'euros': 'set-euro'.

Example

Le livre coûte vingt-sept euros.

The book costs twenty-seven euros.

Words in this phrase

vingt-sept

[vant-SET]

twenty-seven

The number 27, written with a hyphen.

Example

Il y a vingt-sept élèves.

There are twenty-seven pupils.

euros

[uh-roh]

euros

The currency used in France and much of Europe.

Example

Environ vingt euros me semblait raisonnable.

About twenty euros seemed reasonable to me.

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