Is there a grammatically correct form for millions of words?

I just realized that "milionde" is incorrect as the plural of "milionen." But now I can't think of a way to replace the word "milionende" without rewriting the sentence.

For example, every day millions of people drive to work means that every day more than a million people drive to work, while every day millions of people drive to work means that it is more or less a million.

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LonelySoul87
1 year ago

Milion ending???

I don’t know what to say.

The (one) million (with two L)

The millions.

Nix Milionde.

An example:

Millions of Germans go to work every day.

Millions are not just a million but countless millions. I don’t know who told you it’s just a million plus minus one.

LonelySoul87
1 year ago
Reply to  Reinkanation

It works as I wrote it to you. End. Milion enders don’t exist, no matter how much you like.

mulan2255
1 year ago
Reply to  Reinkanation

Because there is a D or T is at the end of the singular form, where an e is attached to form the plural. With the million, the plural is now different. Hundreds, thousands, milion-en.

Janaki
1 year ago
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But just not Millions. If at all, then Millions the logical continuation to hundreds and thousands – but language is just not logical, and that is why neither millions nor millions have established themselves in general language use. And that will not change in the future.

Bubukadnezar
1 year ago

A million

two million.

otherwise nix.

Greetings.

mulan2255
1 year ago

Millions are already plural of millions.

antiaes
1 year ago

Millions are already plural and is not diffracted in D – in UA this is different…

antiaes
1 year ago
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But undefeated – just millions of people…

Janaki
1 year ago

No, because “Millionende” does not exist in general German language use. Your example set “Every day, millions of people go to work” is usually understood in such a way that indefinite number of people, but clearly larger than one millionGo to work. So a word like millions is completely superfluous because there is no specific application for it.

If you want to express that (for example in a federal state) a more or less exactly known number of people go to work every day, then you can easily express this by pre-positioning another number word (one, one and a half, two, three… whatever): “Every day, about a million people go to work in Hamburg.” The “something” then indicates that the number is not exactly known because it is slightly different from day to day, but that the deviation is too small to change the order of magnitude (here: one million).

mulan2255
1 year ago
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To want more than one million, there are 2 ways.
a higher number before what then results in a certain million, or

without number, so an indefinite million amount is meant. “Millionende” would be a kind of plural that there is no.

Janaki
1 year ago
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The You think you’re quite exclusive, I’d like to say. In any case, no one has met me, who has a construct like Millions also only from time to time; let alone regularly. Because, as already written in my answer, it is superfluous.

mulan2255
1 year ago
Reply to  Janaki

Addendum: Of course you can also put the article “the” before it. In the singular it is the synonym for 1 million, in the plural, in spite of article so to speak, destined.