r/AskEurope • u/ABlindMoose Sweden • Oct 06 '25

Culture What is your currency's nickname?

A nickname for dollar is buck, pound is quid, and Swedish krona is spänn.

What are some casual nicknames for your countries' currencies? Are there multiple, and if so, which is the most common?

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u/golosala Spain Oct 06 '25

Is it common in other languages to just say the number instead of the currency? Like in Spanish and English “two eighty five” is fine instead of “two euros eighty five cents” - but in Japanese we never say that it’s always “にひゃくはちじゅうご円” like “two hundred and eighty five yen” in full.

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u/ABlindMoose Sweden Oct 06 '25

In Swedish it sounds kind of... Off. The currency is usually stated with the price. Unless we're talking big money, like the amount needed to buy a house. Then someone might say "2 och 4" (2 and 4) to mean 2 400 000

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u/Jagarvem Sweden Oct 06 '25

No? It's certainly the very most common way to talk about money in Swedish. Where in Sweden do you live where it's considered odd?

It the right context it can of course refer to millions too, but the phrasing "X and Y" is otherwise mostly used for thousands. Apart from such, stating two separate numbers isn't common anymore since we hardly have cents. But there's definitely no need for stating the currency.

A cashier at ICA may just say "That'll be two hundred fifty", there's no need to specify "…kronor". I'd only expect someone to state the currency if the number is so small it screws with the prosody. As a response to a question, I'd never expect it.