1000000000000 in French
un billion
Updated May 2026
English trillion (10^12)
NUMERAL
1 000 000 000 000
FRENCH
un billion
IPA
/œ̃ bil.jɔ̃/
Breakdown
10^12 = 1 billion (long-scale FR; English trillion)
Real sentence examples
“L'univers a environ treize milliards huit cents millions d'annees.”
“La dette nationale americaine depasse trente-cinq billions de dollars (long-scale FR).”
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Un billion in French = 10^12 (a million millions) in long-scale convention. Equals English trillion. Often replaced by "mille milliards" in modern French to avoid confusion with English billion (which is the French milliard).
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