percent

per cento

Indica quante parti su cento; si usa dopo un numero.

In inglese semplice: Out of every hundred; used after a number to show an amount or share.

• Tickets are ten percent cheaper today.
• Sales rose by five percent.
• Only twenty percent of students agreed.

Sinonimi: per hundred

Espressioni comuni: ten percent off, fifty percent more, twenty percent less

per cento

Una delle cento parti uguali di un totale, indicata dal simbolo %.

In inglese semplice: One part out of a hundred, written as the symbol %.

• One percent of a hundred is one.
• The bank charges interest of six percent.
• What percent of the land is forest?

Come si usa: number + percent of something (Thirty percent of the class passed the test.)

Espressioni comuni: one percent, ten percent, percent of something