malyuun
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Afar[edit]
| ← 1 | [a], [b] ← 1,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) → | |
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| Cardinal: malyúun | ||||
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic مَلْيُون (malyūn), from Italian milione.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malyúun m
Usage notes[edit]
- When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
- Malyúun númu. ― A million people.
- When counting, the predicative case is used.
Declension[edit]
| Declension of malyúun | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | malyúun | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | malyúunu | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | malyúun | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | malyúun | |||||||||||||||||
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References[edit]
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197