Can I say like this?
Is this correct to ask like this, "Can I ask for $10 bills? or can I get 5 tens for this?" showing my $50, when I want to switch $50 with 5 tens. ( it means to want to get 5 $10 bills for my 1 $50 bill.
Plus, I wonder how to say when I get the wrong or incorrect or short change, for example, I'm supposed to get $10 for the change but I'm given only $5. In this case, what can I say? My change is $5 short? or I got $5 short or you have to get me $5 more?
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Answers · 5
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Hi Jeongmi,
Of course there are many ways to say this, but here's a suggestion for you:
1. "Could I get change for a fifty please? Five tens would be great, thank you."
2. "Excuse me, I gave you a ten, but you only gave me change for a five." And if they don't immediately apologize and give you the other five, then you could follow up with "I'm certain that I handed you a ten. Could you please give me the remaining five dollars in change? Thanks."
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Yes - "can I get 5 tens for this?" is fine.
Or "Can you change this into tens?"
Asking 'can I ask' is perhaps a little odd, but you would be understood.
"Sorry - that is $5 short", or "shouldn't that be $xx" or often we say "Sorry - I gave you $xxx".
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I would say "I am five dollars short! I need another five." ("A five" being slang for a five dollar bill.) You could probably say my change is 5 short but I wouldn't say I got five short. I am would be better.
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