Simply switch the period and the comma. That works.

Both 2 148,20 and 2.148,20 are correct ways to express it in French. So you were nearly right when you chose one of te two correct answers, instead of both correct answers.

In general you can't tell whether a number is in French or English just by looking at it, so you have to rely on what it says in the question.

If it were in English, "78,005" would mean "seventy eight thousand and five".

But because we're told that it's in French, it actually means "seventy eight and five thousandths". In English we write that as "78.005".

Thanks you Cécile. So saying 1.2 million in french (1,2 millions):  "un virgule deux millions" is correct yea?

Parfait, merci beaucoup  :)

I agree with Belinda.  I am not aware of an English speaking country where 78,005 (seventy eight thousand & five) would have a decimal between 78 and 005. 

I agree. My answer was marked wrong and it’s now a year since the first comment. 

14,052 in English is correct eg Fourteen thousand and fifty two.

14,052.00 is also correct eg Fourteen thousand and fifty two and nought nought.

14.052 would only be correct on a mathematical problem.

Please fix this error. 

Bonjour Aurélie,

”14.052” is NOT the English way of writing that number.  The English way is “14,052” - the first number which you call the “French number”.  It doesn’t make sense.  I’ve seen some cases where it is correct but there are many cases where it’s back to front!

I know that some of your questions are written correctly and do go from the correct French OR English to the other language.

BUT no ENGLISH person writes “fourteen thousand and fifty-two” as “14.05”. “14.052” would be used ONLY as the way of denoting a fraction when one number is divided by another and the result is not a whole number.  The fraction will go forever.  The English way of writing “fourteen thousand and fifty-two” is “14,052” using comma.  In your lesson on numbers you say that the French use either a space or sometimes (rarely) a period.  So if you want to as us how the French would write the number, the response you want is using either a period or a space.

In English, DECIMAL points are used ONLY in currency (in which case it would be “fourteen dollars and fifty-two cents” or “$14.52” OR in division...never in writing numbers.  So the number “one million” would be “1,000,000”; the currency “one million dollars and fifty-two cents” would be “1,000,000.53”

i see that now some English ways of writing numbers omit the comma and use a space instead.  Bur they don’t use decimal points unless as I said it’s a currency or a mathematical division.

Seethe answer marked with a green tick in this link.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/71770/usage-of-and-and-comma-when-writing-numbers-uk-style

sorry to be so nit picky on on this Aurélie but i’m an editor and am not capable of letting this go!

I agree completely with Marnie.  What is the French number "14,052" in English ? It seems pretty clear from the answer (14.052) that the question should be ,What is the English number 14,052 in French?

I had this problem as well on the Micro Kwiz test: Writing decimal numbers in French.  I got marked wrong for choosing the space instead of a period.