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Afar
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَلْيُون (malyūn), from Italian milione.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malˈjuːn/
- Hyphenation: mal‧yuun
Noun
malyúun m
- million
Usage notes
- When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
- Malyúun númu. ― A million people.
- When counting, the predicative case is used.
Declension
Declension of malyúun
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absolutive
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malyúun
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predicative
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malyúunu
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subjective
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malyúun
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genitive
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malyúun
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References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197
Somali
Numeral
malyuun
- million