Percent Meaning in English
word
/pɝˈsɛnt/
pur-SENT
/pəsˈɛnt/
puh-SENT
التعريف
A percent is one part out of a hundred. It is used to talk about rates, amounts, changes, and portions of a whole.
الاستخدام والفروق الدقيقة
Usually used with numbers: '10 percent', '50 percent off', 'a 5 percent increase'. In American English, both 'percent' and '%' are common with numbers; 'percentage' is more often used for the general idea, not a specific number.
Spanish: por cientoPortuguese (BR): por centoPortuguese (PT): por centoChinese (Simplified): 百分之Chinese (Traditional): 百分之Hindi: प्रतिशतArabic: في المئةBengali: শতাংশRussian: процентJapanese: パーセントVietnamese: phần trămKorean: 퍼센트Turkish: yüzdeUrdu: فی صدIndonesian: persen
جمل نموذجية
Only ten percent of the class was absent today.
basic
The store is giving twenty percent off all shoes.
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Our sales went up by five percent this month.
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I’m almost done—just one percent left to charge.
natural
They promised a small raise, but it was only two percent.
natural
Ninety percent of the time, this app works perfectly.
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