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Spanish translation: mil millon(es)


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English term or phrase:billion
Spanish translation:mil millon(es)
Entered by: Sandra Alboum
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18:42 Feb 10, 2004
English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Bus/Financial
English term or phrase: billion
10 billion (some people translate billion as millon)
ursula
mil millones
Explanation:
This is the way of referring to it.

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billion [\'býlýən] number
(= thousand million) mil millones mpl
three billion dollars tres mil millones de dólares
I\'ve told you a billion times (informal) te lo he dicho infinidad de veces

i.e. 1,000,000,000

(Wish I had a billion dollars!)
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Sandra Alboum
United States
Local time: 16:33
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Summary of answers provided
5 +11mil millones
Sandra Alboum
5Mil millonesEugenia Rodriguez
4mil millones /(de dolares)
Сергей Лузан
3billonGabo Pena


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Mil millones


Explanation:
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Eugenia Rodriguez
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +11
mil millones


Explanation:
This is the way of referring to it.

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Note added at 2 mins (2004-02-10 18:44:57 GMT)
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billion [\'býlýən] number
(= thousand million) mil millones mpl
three billion dollars tres mil millones de dólares
I\'ve told you a billion times (informal) te lo he dicho infinidad de veces

i.e. 1,000,000,000

(Wish I had a billion dollars!)

Sandra Alboum
United States
Local time: 16:33
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carlos Diaz de Leon: Exacto, y en el caso específico de la pregunta, serían diez mil millones
3 mins

agree  C. Aaron Palomino: Ja,ja,ja, en muchas pelis aún hoy sigen diciendo que en el plante hay 6 billones de habitantes.....
9 mins

agree  Marisol Honsberg
32 mins

agree  purificaci
41 mins

agree  A.L.: Exacto, diez mil millones. Yo también recuerdo el dato de los 6 billones de habitantes en el planeta Tierra (creo que fue en Armaggedon). ¡Madre de Dios! Saludos a todos :-)
56 mins

agree  Maria Belarra: no estaria mal que tambien se equivocaran en los bancos y nos multiplicaran los ahorros por 100..
1 hr

agree  Patricia Baldwin
1 hr

agree  Lida Garcia: definitivamente mil millones
1 hr

agree  CNF
5 hrs

agree  Pamela Peralta: así me lo enseñaron en la escuela de traducción
1 day5 hrs

agree  YAE: sí, mil millones
2 days36 mins
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
mil millones /(de dolares)


Explanation:
billion (def) 1)(GB) million millions; 2)(US) thousand millions. If considering U$d only a thousand millions - but anyway enough for modest life as mentioned in the answer above.
Re.: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A. S. Hornby ISBN 0 19 431101 5.
The Random House Dictionary, ISBN 0-394-51200-6

Сергей Лузан
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1 day4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
billon


Explanation:
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Gabo Pena
Local time: 13:33
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