milliónál

Milliónál is the locative-case form of the Hungarian noun millió (million). It is used to indicate a location or threshold at the level of one million in quantitative expressions, especially in formal or statistical language and in comparisons. The base form millió can take different case endings, and milliónál corresponds to “at a million” or “at the level of a million.” For plural references to multiple millions, the form is millióknál.

Morphology and usage

The singular form is built from millió plus the locative suffix -nál, yielding milliónál. When referring to several millions, millióknál is used. In practice, milliónál appears in constructions that express a threshold or magnitude, often combined with words like több or kevesebb to denote more than or less than a million. For example, egymilliónál több and egymilliónál kevesebb are common in statistical or journalistic language.

Examples

A város lakossága egymilliónál több embert számlál. (The city’s population counts more than one million people.) A bevétel egymilliónál kevesebb volt. (The revenue was less than one million.)

Notes

In everyday speech, speakers may prefer alternatives such as egymillió or körülbelül egymillió for approximate quantities. Milliónál is found mainly in written text, reports, or formal discourse where precise threshold expressions are desired. Related forms include millióknál for plural references and other numeric phrases built with the locative suffix.

See also

Hungarian grammar, Hungarian numbers, locative case, numerical expressions in Hungarian.