biljard

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from German Billiarde.

Noun[edit]

biljard n (plural biljarden, diminutive biljardje n)

  1. quadrillion (1015)

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

biljard n or m (plural biljarden or biljards, diminutive biljardje n)

  1. Obsolete spelling of biljart.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From French billard.

Noun[edit]

biljard m (definite singular biljarden, indefinite plural biljarder, definite plural biljardene)

  1. (games) billiards
  2. a billiard table

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French billard.

Noun[edit]

biljard m (definite singular biljarden, uncountable)

  1. (games) billiards

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Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

biljard c

  1. (uncountable) pool, billiards, snooker
  2. (disputed) the number 1015; a (short scale) quadrillion

Usage notes[edit]

As with other numbers ending in -jard (with the exception of miljard, 109), this number is disputed, as several authorities[1][2] claim that it "is not numeral" and "there is no name for thousand billions [e.g. 1015] in Swedish", respectively. However, the linguist Allan Ellegård claimed in[3] 1980 the opposite.

Declension[edit]

Declension of biljard 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative biljard biljarden biljarder biljarderna
Genitive biljards biljardens biljarders biljardernas

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “Kjell Elfstöm, lecturer in mathematics at Lund University, 1997”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2009 September 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 20 May 2009
  2. ^ “Terminologicentralen”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], 2009 September 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 July 2015
  3. ^ Tidskriften Språkvård/1980:2, Om namn på höga tal