The return is the amount that a seller returns to the buyer when the buyer gave more money than necessary to pay for a product or service.
Vuelto is a noun that is used in several Latin American countries with reference to the amount that a seller returns to the buyer when the buyer gave more money than was necessary to pay for a product or service.
For example: “Here is your change: five pesos and twenty-five cents” , “Please pay me fairly: I don't have coins to give you the change” , “I think the greengrocer made a mistake in giving me the change” .
Example of return
Suppose a person enters a clothing store and decides to buy a pair of pants whose price is $95 . When paying for the item, hand a $100 bill to the cashier.
As you can see, there is a difference of 5 dollars between the price of the pants and the money given. Therefore, the cashier must give the buyer $5 as change.
Some considerations
It is worth mentioning that the original term for this meaning, according to official definitions, is Volver , which is used in Spain . According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), it is the money that is returned to a buyer to carry out an account adjustment, to give him the amount that exceeds the price of a product or service, whether with bank effect , banknote or coin.
In some nations , the idea of “keeping a change” refers to appropriating other people's money through an act of corruption : “Several people suspect that the financier kept a change and that is why he was murdered,” “The infrastructure works They were not finished because some official was left with a change.”
"Keeping change" implies committing an illegal act.
Other uses of the term returned
The RAE dictionary includes other expressions that include the term turned, as can be seen below: a turn-down slap is a blow that is inflicted on the face with great violence ; A turned folio (or verso folio ) is a sheet of an open notebook or book , usually from a manuscript, that is located to the left of the person reading it; A turtleneck (or turtleneck ) is one that, in certain garments, folds over itself.
The term returned, on the other hand, is also the participle of the verb return (return, return), that is, its non-personal form (it is not conjugated in any person) whose ending is -do according to the regular paradigm of our language. and serves, among other things, for the formation of compound tenses. Let's look at some example sentences below: “My love, I'm back! Fortunately there were not many people in the market” , “Marta has not seen Facundo since they separated” , “The Argentine player has once again scored three goals in a match and gave his team another victory” .
Verb conjugation
Regarding the use of compound tenses , it is important to note that in some countries it is not common, but rather speakers opt for simple ones, those that consist of a single word ( "he returned" belongs to the Past Perfect Compound, while "I returned" is the equivalent conjugation in the Past Perfect Simple).
Focusing only on past tenses, it is not correct to use only one of them, since each one fulfills a different function : although both describe actions that took place in the past, the compound denotes that they have caused certain consequences in the present, while that the simple unlinks both instances in time.
For example, if we are talking about a trip we took a long time ago, it is more correct to appeal to the Past Perfect Simple: " When I returned from Ireland, at the end of '84, the first thing I did was visit my friends ." If, on the other hand, the action has just concluded, and we still have our suitcases with us or we are carrying the fatigue of a long trip, we must use the Past Perfect Compound: " I have just returned and I am already receiving tons of messages ."