Definition
几十亿 means 'several billion' and functions like a numeral phrase. You place it directly before a noun (几十亿人) or before a classifier + noun (几十亿颗星星). Note that 亿 (yì) is 100 million, so 几十亿 literally means 'tens of hundreds of millions'.
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several billionbillions
Examples
- 几十亿。Quán shìjiè yǒu jǐ shí yì rénkǒu.The world has several billion people.
- 几十亿。Zhè jiā gōngsī zhuàn le jǐ shí yì měiyuán.This company earned billions of dollars.
- 几十亿。Kēxuéjiā rènwéi yǔzhòu zhōng yǒu jǐ shí yì kē xīngxing.Scientists believe there are billions of stars in the universe.
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