Between four hundred and six hundred thousand... 400 or 400,000?

Question

When a native speaker say 'between four hundred and six hundred thousand dollars' in spoken English, does he mean 'between 400 and 600,000' or 'between 400,000 and 600,000'?

Answer 1

I am a transcriptionist. I'll write that as 400 to $600,000. Transcriptionists don't assume. We only transcribe what is being said regardless of possibilities of what the speaker might mean. Since the 400 has no dollar spoken after it, transcriptionists don't put the sign nor assume that it is 400,000. Ergo, 400 to $600,000.

Answer 2

by native do you mean native american? or did you mean foreign? My advice is to ask for clarification, or you can often tell from context. Regardless of your meaning behind the word native, not every "native" will necessarily speak the same way, just as many Americans don't always speak the same.

EDIT
Or by native did you mean decendents of the europeans that came to america hundreds of years ago? Which I'm thinking after reading the first answer is probably what you meant. In which case the first answer by milon is 99% of the time correct but in a few contexts could be 400 and 600,000.

Answer 3

he means between 400,000 and 600,000.

Answer 4

between 400000 and 600000