percent

por ciento

Indica cuántas partes corresponden a cada cien; se usa después de un número.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: per hundred

Expresiones frecuentes: ten percent off, fifty percent more, twenty percent less

por ciento

Una de las cien partes iguales de un total, representada con el símbolo %.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: number + percent of something (Thirty percent of the class passed the test.)

Expresiones frecuentes: one percent, ten percent, percent of something