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Differences in the use of numbers in French and English: mille, milliers, milliards
These numbers are often confused by English speakers:
Mille[edit | edit source]
mille 'thousand' is directly followed by a noun:
- mille euros
a thousand euros
Milliers[edit | edit source]
des milliers 'thousands' is followed by de when followed by another noun:
- des milliers d’euros
thousands of euros
Milliards[edit | edit source]
des milliards 'billions' is also followed by de when followed by another noun:
- des milliards d’euros
billions of euros
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- Nouns
- Intransitive verbs and auxiliary “être”
- Grammatical and real gender
- Adverbs ending in —ément derived from adjectives ending in —e
- Adjectives which normally follow the noun
- Plural forms of adjectives — The normal case
- Impersonal Verbs
- Inversion of subject and verb after some sentence initial adverbs
- Easy way of generating the simple past
- Subject verb agreement — Verb agreement with collective noun subjects
- Conjugation group 2 — verbs whose infinitive ends in —ir
- Adverbs ending in —ment derived from nouns
- Position of object pronouns with voici and voilà
- Position of direct and indirect object pronouns