billion
gb/bˈɪljən/ us/bˈɪljən/
A2
Ingles
~ 2600
milliárd, ezer, rengeteg, ezerszer
PANGNGALAN
A2
1
milliárd
A2
Padron ng paggamit:
[number] billion [things]
The company is worth over two billion dollars.
A cég több mint kétmilliárd dollárt ér.
There are more than seven billion people on Earth.
Több mint hétmilliárd ember él a Földön.
The project will cost about half a billion euros.
She inherited a billion pounds from her uncle.
By 2050, the population could reach ten billion.
Mga Halimbawa para sa Nag-aaral
China has more than one billion people.
Kínának több mint egymilliárd lakosa van.
The movie made two billion dollars.
A film kétmilliárd dolláros bevételt hozott.
He wants to give one billion to help poor people.
The company lost three billion last year.
Karaniwang pagkakamali:
Learners sometimes confuse 'billion' with 'million', especially in pronunciation or when translating from languages that use different naming systems for large numbers.
Kahulugan
One thousand million (1,000,000,000)
Mga kolokasyon
billion dollars
|billion people
|cost a billion
|worth billions
|lose billions
Mga kasingkahulugan
one thousand million (Alternative way of saying the same number; more common in some countries like the UK.)
Mga kasalungat
million (A much smaller number, 1,000 times less than a billion.)
Mga tema
mathematics
|business
|science
|core_vocabulary
Depinisyon
The number 1,000,000,000.
The number represented by 1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000).
PANGNGALAN
B1
INFORMAL
2
Padron ng paggamit:
a billion [things]
I've told you a billion times to clean your room.
Már ezerszer elmondtam neked, hogy takarítsd ki a szobádat.
There are billions of stars in our galaxy.
A galaxisunkban rengeteg csillag van.
She has a billion ideas for new projects.
We have a billion things to do before the trip.
Mga Halimbawa para sa Nag-aaral
I have told you a billion times.
Már ezerszer elmondtam neked.
There are billions of fish in the sea.
Rengeteg hal él a tengerben.
He has a billion games at home.
Karaniwang pagkakamali:
Some learners may take the number literally instead of understanding it as exaggeration in informal speech.
Kahulugan
Very large but unspecified number
Mga kolokasyon
a billion times
|billions of stars
|billions of reasons
Mga kasingkahulugan
zillions (More playful and exaggerated; always informal.)
Mga kasalungat
few (Describes a small number, opposite of a large quantity.)
Mga tema
daily life
|core_vocabulary
Depinisyon
A very large number, not exact.
An informal way to describe an extremely large quantity, not meant to be taken literally.
Gramatika
Anyo sa diksyunaryo
billion
IPA
GB/bˈɪljən/
US/bˈɪljən/
Mga pantig at diin
bil - lion (2 pantig)
Stress on 1st syllable (bil)
Mga anyo ng salita
Noun
- Base: billion
- Plural: billion, billions
Mga kaugnay na salita
Forms
billions
noun
Core family
billionaire
noun
billionth
adjective
Mga ekspresyon
a billion times
1/ə bˈɪljən tˈaɪmz/
fixed phrase
informal
Exaggeratedly many repetitions
Said when something happens or is repeated many, many times.
Mga Halimbawa
- I’ve explained this a billion times already.
- She’s watched that movie a billion times.
billions of
1/bˈɪljənz əv/
fixed phrase
A very large quantity of something
A very large number or amount of something.
Mga Halimbawa
- Billions of stars can be seen in the night sky.
- The app has been downloaded billions of times.
cost a billion
1/kˈɔst ə bˈɪljən/
fixed phrase
Be priced at one billion currency units
To have a price of 1,000,000,000 in money.
Mga Halimbawa
- The stadium cost a billion dollars to build.
- That tech deal could cost a billion euros.