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yen

(= hankering) a yearning for something or to do something the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen (= ache, pine) have a desire for something or someone who is not present She ached for a cigarette I am pining for my lover

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money

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Simple sentences

An office girl was robbed of an envelope containing 100,000 yen on her way back from the bank.
He had only one hundred yen with him.
A thousand yen is owed to you.
Please draw a hundred thousand yen from the bank.
Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive.
The bill amounts to five thousand yen.
The yen is rising and the dollar is falling.
I exchanged yen for dollars.
The yen is weaker than the dollar.
The value of the yen has risen greatly.
I'd like to know the exact exchange rate for yen.
The yen is expected to lose value against the dollar.
Can you break a 10,000 yen bill?
I paid 40,000 yen for this tape recorder.
The restaurant billed me 250,000 yen for the party.
If I had one million yen now, I would buy a car.
Each member has to pay 10,000 yen a month.
The yen is still low against the dollar.
Can I exchange yen for dollars here?
Please exchange yen for dollars.
The yen rose to the dollar.
Can you lend me 10,000 yen?
Is it about ten million yen?
The rate of exchange is 145 yen to the dollar.

Movie subtitles

You see, on the boat we had an awful yen for each other, so I saw him as very tall and very handsome.
Did I? I didn't mind you. As a matter of fact, I had kind of a yen for you.
Don't take any wooden yen.
Certainly has a terrific yen for you, Peggy.
I lost my hard-earned cash and ran like a thief out of there. with a great yen to become friendly with people.
Can you give me 30 yen?
Yes, a little over 6,000 yen.
Yeah, he got 40,000 yen off of her.
He stole 40,000 yen.
Twenty-five years now since I took home my first 13.5 yen.
That's 6,000 yen a day.
All for a measly 50,000 yen.
She said it's 100 yen for the lot!
Since I've been in Tokyo, I've frittered away 2,500 yen!
I got a yen for you right off.
A house of our own would cost 500,000 yen, right?
Yeah, it ought to be worth 6 or 700,000 yen by now.
Plus a monthly pension of 12 or 13,000 yen. And another 100,000 in savings.
Uncle, he even withdrew 50,000 yen from his account.
He makes 200 yen more a month than I do, so he looks down on me.
Fact is, she's fleeced you out of 50,000 yen in a few days.
Listen, Brother I was thinking, are you willing to put up 3,000 yen?
I will if you will. 2,000 yen should suffice.
No, more like a thousand yen!
I wouldn't get five yen for this stuff.
Will you lend me 30 yen?
That costs 53 yen.
How's 100 yen?
Here's 50 yen.
How about 170 yen?
I made a mistake. It's actually 270 yen.
Can't you knock off 100 yen?
Surely you understand that a clerk in a fabric store can't just give away kimono fabric costing over 50 yen.
He'd never lend me 300 yen. Not without good reason.
After everything I've done for them, they can't write off 300 yen?
Three hundred yen as promised.
He says about 200 yen.

News and current affairs

The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater.
In the short run, the yen and the dollar continue to benefit from a flight to safety, as panicked investors seek a place to hide.
The yen and dollar are also being bolstered as central banks elsewhere continue to cut interest rates towards zero, territory that the yen and dollar policy rates already occupy.
Thus, even though the United States and Japan will not be raising interest rates anytime soon, lower foreign rates still make the dollar and yen relatively more attractive.
Commodity prices will continue to be soft, pulling down commodity currencies, and bolstering the yen especially, since resource-poor Japan is so reliant on commodity imports.
But, when more normal growth does resume, the recent trends underpinning dollar and yen appreciation will disappear.
As for the yen, it, too, will suffer from the continuing rise in Japan's public debt levels, which are already among the highest in the world.
Continuing weakness in the Japanese economy will eventually hit the yen.
If today's constellation of exchange rates represents some excessive dollar and yen appreciation, especially against emerging-market currencies, when it will unwind?
Then watch for the dollar and yen to boomerang.
Once the Japanese engineered their own QE, the yen promptly depreciated.
In December, the International Monetary Fund will consider adding renminbi to the basket of currencies that comprise the Fund's unit of account, known as Special Drawing Rights, alongside the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen.
Every five years, the IMF reconsiders its composition, which currently is defined in terms of the dollar, euro, yen, and pound.
The addition of the renminbi to the basket, which currently includes the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen, would provide China with a boost to its prestige.
But come it will. Then watch for the dollar and yen to boomerang.
Once the Japanese engineered their own QE, the yen promptly depreciated. That has kept the euro strong.
As for the economic crisis, bailouts and stimulus packages on the order of billions of dollars, euros, yen, or yuan have been planned or implemented to stem the further slide of the global economy.
WASHINGTON, DC - Over the last several weeks, the dollar's depreciation against the euro and yen has grabbed global attention.
The scale of recent US trade deficits was always unsustainable, and the dollar has therefore fallen against the yen, euro, Brazilian real, and Australian and Canadian dollars.
Its launch has sharply weakened the yen and is now leading to rising trade surpluses.
The US government was powerless in the face of an undervalued yen, fueling the belief that the rest of the world was using the dollar to attack America's manufacturing base.