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Miljoner

Miljoner is the plural form of the Swedish noun miljon, meaning one million (1,000,000). It is used to denote quantities in the millions in everyday language and formal contexts, such as population counts, money, and statistics. Examples: två miljoner människor (two million people) or fem miljoner kronor (five million kronor). In Swedish, miljon is an en-ord; the indefinite singular is en miljon, the plural is miljoner; the definite singular is miljonen, and the definite plural is miljonerna. Numbers are grouped by thousands with spaces, for example 2 345 678 is read as två miljoner tre hundrafyrtiofem tusen sexhundra sjuttiåtta. The phrase miljoner can also appear with adjectives: många miljoner (many millions).

Etymology: miljon is borrowed from the French million (and related forms in other European languages), ultimately

Cognates and related forms exist in other Nordic languages, such as Norwegian millioner and Danish millioner.

from
Latin
mille
(thousand)
via
a
Romance-language
form
such
as
Italian
milione
or
French
million.
The
term
is
widely
used
across
disciplines
including
economics,
demography,
and
media,
to
describe
large-scale
quantities.
It
also
appears
in
idiomatic
expressions
such
as
miljoner
gånger
(millions
of
times).