Translation
billion (a thousand million)
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Word origin
Borrowed from French milliard, which was built on million, itself from Italian milione, an augmentative of mille ('thousand'). Like миллион it is a noun: what it counts goes into the genitive plural (миллиард рублей), and миллиард itself changes after a number (два миллиарда, пять миллиардов).
- Origin
- French
- Root
- milliard
- English cognates
- milliard, million
Grammar
Examples
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The bank lost a billion roubles.
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The company is worth two billion dollars.
восьми́ .
More than eight billion people live on Earth.
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