siete millones
/sjete miʝones/from spelling rules
In Spanish, seven million is siete millones.
siete millones is used to express the number that is seven times one million.
How does it change in a sentence?
The word millones is a noun and must always be in its plural form when it follows the number seven. When you use siete millones as a quantifier before a noun, you must add the word de before that noun.
What mistakes should you avoid?
English speakers often mistakenly use the singular millón after numbers greater than one, but in Spanish, the noun must be pluralized to millones.
Did you know?
- In many Spanish-speaking countries, the number siete millones is written as 7.000.000 or 7 000 000. This is the opposite of the English convention of using commas to separate thousands.
- The Spanish word siete is a distant relative of the English word 'seven'. Both descended from the Proto-Indo-European word *septḿ̥, which is also the ancestor of the Greek heptá.
- Unlike the English word 'million', which can be used as a vague term for 'a lot' in phrases like 'thanks a million', Spanish speakers more commonly use the word millones in a literal sense or choose different hyperbolic expressions.
Examples in context
- Siete millonesSeven million
- La ciudad tiene siete millones de habitantes.The city has seven million inhabitants.
- Ese coche cuesta siete millones de pesos.That car costs seven million pesos.
Example conversation
Lucía and Mateo are discussing the population of a large city.
- LucíaMira, Mateo, esta ciudad es enorme.Look, Mateo, this city is huge.
- Mateo¿Cuánta gente vive aquí, Lucía?How many people live here, Lucía?
- LucíaCreo que hay casi siete millones de personas.I think there are almost seven million people.
- Mateo¡Es increíble que haya siete millones!It's incredible that there are seven million!
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries siete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
