billón

English translation: trillion

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Spanish term or phrase:billón
English translation:trillion
Entered by: Elvio Bracco

11:09 Oct 30, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Mathematics & Statistics
Spanish term or phrase: billón
Estimados: Estoy traduciendo un texto (contrato de compraventa de empresas) donde aparece la cifra 2 billones. Mi pregunta surge porque encontré en varias oportunidades que se ha traducido como BILLION pero en mi opinión debería tratarse de TRILLION. Me podrían ayudar? Desde ya, muchísimas gracias.
MCLANG
trillion
Explanation:
Hola, es correcto lo que decís. Los billones del idioma inglés y español no son equivalentes. El billion inglés es nuestro equivalente al millardo nuestro, o sea mil millones. Por otro lado, el trillion inglés si es equivalente al billón nuestro, es decir, un millón de millones
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trillion


Explanation:
Hola, es correcto lo que decís. Los billones del idioma inglés y español no son equivalentes. El billion inglés es nuestro equivalente al millardo nuestro, o sea mil millones. Por otro lado, el trillion inglés si es equivalente al billón nuestro, es decir, un millón de millones


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Elvio Bracco
Argentina
Local time: 08:19
Native speaker of: Spanish
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agree  Luis M. Sosa
16 mins

agree  Neil Ashby: Nowadays this is true, but in the past the British billion was the same as the Spanish one (a million million). The US billion has always been a thousand million.
45 mins

agree  Joaquín Carrillo Bascary: I agree, however, Neil's observation is spot on. It's a good thing to keep in mind.
2 hrs

agree  Salwa Awaad
18 hrs
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