![]() #Numbers in different languages 12 plus#Sextillion / die Trilliarde (1 plus 21 zeros) Quintillion / die Trillion (1 plus 18 zeros) Quadrillion / die Billiarde (1 plus 15 zeros) So let's recap what we've learned and go a bit further (false friends are highlighted in bold): I'm not sure what Frida Gold is referring to, since the population of planet Earth is 7.4 billion (in English, 7,4 Milliarden in German), so even if she means the English "billion," the count should be 7 billion, not 6 billion! Maybe it just sounded better in the song. ![]() Let's get even bigger with our next false friend:Ĭaption 7, Frida Gold - 6 Billionen Play CaptionĪn English trillion is die Billion (plural Billionen) in German. But when we ramp it up to an English billion, we find our first false friend:ĭrei Milliarden Jahre lang war kein Lebewesen auf der Erde mit bloßem Auge zu erkennen.įor three billion years no living thing on earth was visible to the naked eye.Īn English billion is die Milliarde in German (plural Milliarden). Thus "million" in English is the same as die Million in German: a 1 followed by 6 zeros, 1,000,000. in der Stadt erwartet.Īround one million people are expected in the city.Ĭaptions 23-24, Rhein-Main-TV - Feier zur deutschen Einheit in Frankfurt wird gigantisch Play Caption Let's start relatively small with a mere million: BANNER PLACEHOLDER ![]() It's easy to get confused by the names of large numbers in German, as many of them are false friends - number names that are the same as in English but represent different numbers entirely. ![]()
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