1 000 MF
English translation: One billion
| 13:29 Jul 18, 2002 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial / ways of writing amounts in billions from French francs | |||||
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|  Selected response from: pschmitt Local time: 10:07 | ||||
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| 4 +1 | One billion |
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| 5 | A thousand million or a billion. |
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| 4 | One thousand million |
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| 3 | may depend on the country the source text is originated from |
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8 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1One billion Explanation: Yes, it's "one billion" in GB English as well. Hope this helps |
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10 mins confidence:
A thousand million or a billion. Explanation: They are both acceptable. |
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One thousand million Explanation: Is a billion in US, I believe, and is accepted as a billion in UK. (used to be a million million!), So, a billion is 1,000,000,000 (9 zeros) hth |
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may depend on the country the source text is originated from Explanation: may depend of the country the source text is originated from AFAIK you're right but if we translate a French text from France, the most probably we'll deal with French Francs, otherwise Belgian or Swiss Francs might be meant by the author. In such cases it may be useful to write "FF 1 billion" or "BF 1 billion" or "SF 1 billion" depending on the currency in question. |
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