milionów

Milionów to genitive plural form of the Polish noun milion, which means one million (1,000,000). In everyday language and statistics, milionów is used primarily after numerals five and above, or in fixed phrases, where the noun governs the genitive plural. For example, pięć milionów złotych means five million zlotys, and dwadzieścia milionów ludzi means twenty million people. In the nominative context, the plural form is miliony (miliony), as in dwa miliony (two million).

Grammatically, the base word is milion. Its plural forms include miliony (nominative plural) and milionów (genitive plural, used after numerals ≥5 and in many fixed expressions). Other cases follow standard Polish declension for masculine inanimate nouns: milionom (dative plural), milionami (instrumental plural), milionach (locative plural). The precise form depends on the grammatical role in the sentence.

Usage and meaning: milionów serves to denote large quantities, usually as an exact number when the quantity is at least five or when the genitive plural is required by the number system. It is common in journalism, economics, demographics, and everyday speech when discussing sums, populations, or statistical figures described as millions of units. The concept remains numerical but frequently appears in contexts emphasizing scale rather than precise counts.

Etymology: the form milion entered Polish from early modern European languages, with common cognates in Italian milione and French million. The term reflects a long-standing mathematical concept of a thousand thousands and has been integrated into Polish with standard declension and usage. The symbol for a million remains 1 000 000 in number notation, typically written with a space as a thousands separator in Polish texts.