A Conversation for Lost Words

Billion

Post 1

Nieve

However, if French and Spanish, billion means a million million where a thousand million is still mil million in Spanish


Billion

Post 2

Mad Beef

In German the following structure exists:
1.000.000 "Millionen"
1.000.000.000 "Milliarden"
1.000.000.000.000 "Billionen"
1.000.000.000.000.000 "Billiarden"
This, by the way, makes for very confusing financial discussions in bilingual households/companies...
ciao


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