How to Use forint in a Sentence

forint

noun
  • Mr Orban forced the banks to redenominate the mortgages in forints at favourable rates.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Hungary’s currency, the forint, has lost around 16% of its value against the dollar in the last six months and slipped to a historic low against the euro last week.
    — chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Hungary's currency, the forint, has lost around 16% of its value against the dollar in the last six months and slipped to a historic low against the euro last week.
    — Fox News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The forint and zloty are particularly exposed as their countries do substantial trade with the euro area and they are normally quoted against the euro.
    — Simon Flint, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Although the price of this particular listing is given in euros, most real estate transactions in Hungary are done in forints.
    — Roxana Popescu, New York Times, 20 June 2018
  • Although a member of the European Union, Hungary uses its forint as currency.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Portfolio managers are selling the forint and zloty as a wager on Europe’s potential energy crisis.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Hungary is a member of the European Union, making continental travel a breeze (though remember that the country uses its own currency, the forint).
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The damage from any significant euro decline would be most acute for the Hungarian forint and Polish zloty, according to a Bloomberg study of moves in the single currency over the past two decades.
    — Simon Flint, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In 1946, Hungary replaced the pengö with a new currency—the forint—at a rate of 400 quintillion pengö to 1 forint, which eventually stabilized the economy.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The referendum — on which the government spent at least 10 billion Hungarian forint, or about $36 million — included no specifics about legislation or government action.
    — Rick Lyman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
  • According to Tisza, this has put under pressure the production industry’s annual revenues, which are between estimated to be between 250 billion-300 billion forints.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • To improve Hungarians’ purchasing power, the government also pegged the national currency, the forint, to the euro and Swiss franc at an unrealistically favorable exchange rate.
    — Dariusz Kalan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2015
  • The average sale price of residential property in Budapest is about 80 million Hungarian forint, or about $210,000.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The forint has dropped more than 10% against the euro this year, the third-worst performance among emerging market currencies after the Argentine peso and the Turkish lira, largely because of uncertainty over EU fund access.
    — Jorge Valero, Bloomberg.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Attila Kisbenedek | Afp | Getty Images Financial markets also appeared to lend their approval, with the Hungarian forint hitting a four-year high and 10-year government bond yields plummeting up to 50 basis points on Monday morning.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026

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