Definition of tenge in English:
tenge
nounPlural tengesˈtɛŋɡeɪˈteNGɡā
1The basic monetary unit of Kazakhstan, equal to 100 teins.
Example sentencesExamples
- They began auctions in Kazakh tenges and Byelorussian roubles for Russian roubles.
- The total sum will be at about 108 billions tenges.
- A tax court fined the paper 57 million tenges for not paying sales tax for two years.
- Parties, which can each field 10 candidates, will have a spending cap of 99 million tenges.
- The state budget received 60 billion tenges of taxes for the legalized properties.
- The average annual per capita income is just 47,795 Kazakhstan tenges.
- A fare in a taxi to the city is 150-300 tenges.
- Of this sum, 3 billion tenges is intended for health monitoring among the local population over a period of three years.
- His colleague spent a day behind bars for the flat refusal to pay a fine of 50,000 tenges.
- Average monthly salaries have been estimated to be roughly equivalent to 31,500 tenges.
- The average wage totalled 45,700 tenges.
2A monetary unit of Turkmenistan, equal to one hundredth of a manat.
Origin
Kazakh and Turkmen, literally 'coin, rouble'.