milyaar
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Afar
[edit]| [a], [b] ← 1,000 | ← 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||
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| Cardinal: milyáar | ||||
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مِلْيار (milyār), from French milliard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]milyáar m
Usage notes
[edit]- When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
- Milyáar númu. ― A billion people.
- When counting, the predicative case is used.
Declension
[edit]| Declension of milyáar | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | milyáar | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | milyáara | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | milyáar | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | milyáar | |||||||||||||||||
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References
[edit]- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197