How to say “million” in 43 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Arabic, where مليون is the 378th most used word.
- Afrikaans miljoen #627
- Arabic مليون #378
- Bosnian milijuna #1,339
- Bulgarian милион #1,237
- Catalan milions #686
- Croatian milijuna #762
- Czech milion #1,955
- Danish millioner a million #628
- Dutch miljoen a million, 10⁶ #611
- Esperanto milionoj #1,097
- Estonian miljonit a/one million, 10⁶ #721
- Finnish miljoonaa million, 10⁶ #931
- French millions #745
- Galician millóns #527
- German millionen #799
- Greek εκατομμύρια #808
- Hebrew מיליון #511
- Hindi करोड़ ten million #870
- Hungarian millió a million, 10⁶ #857
- Indonesian juta #601
- Italian milione #1,777
- Korean 백만 million, 10⁶ #1,383
- Latvian miljonus #969
- Lithuanian milijonas #1,923
- Macedonian милион #881
- Malay juta #505
- Malayalam ദശലക്ഷം ten lakhs, one million #1,159
- Norwegian millioner a million #634
- Persian میلیون #1,207
- Polish milionów #1,248
- Portuguese milhão #1,677
- Romanian milioane #645
- Russian миллион #2,137
- Serbian milion #1,253
- Slovak milión #903
- Slovenian milijon #627
- Spanish millones #636
- Swedish miljoner A million, 10⁶ #690
- Tagalog milyon #860
- Tamil கோடி crore, 10,000,000 = ten million #1,880
- Turkish milyon #539
- Ukrainian мільйон #1,724
- Vietnamese triệu #649
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.