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Differences in the use of numbers in French and English: 'hundreds','thousands','millions' and'billions'
The numeral nouns centaine, millier, million, milliard are always followed by de when they are followed by other nouns:
French | English |
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des centaines de personnes | hundreds of people |
des milliers de personnes | thousands of people |
un million de dollars | a million dollars |
des millions de personnes | millions of people |
cinq milliards de dollars | five billion dollars |
des milliards de personnes | billions of people |
des centaines de milliers de personnes | hundreds of thousands of people |
des centaines de millions de personnes | hundreds of millions of people |
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