die Milliarde
Meaning in English: billion
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Numbers in German list.
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Das Projekt kostet fast eine Milliarde Euro.
The project costs almost a billion euros.
Der, die or das?
Milliarde is feminine: die Milliarde. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Milliarde in the top 5,000
Milliarde itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Der neue Flughafen hat Milliarden gekostet.
The new airport cost billions.
How common is Milliarde?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Milliarde appears 12 times per million words — about once every 81,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Milliarden (#615) is in the top 5,000, though.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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