Spanish vocabulary · Beginner
1 Million in Spanish: Un Millón
Un Millón · noun · oon mee-YOHN
The number 1,000,000 is expressed as un millón in Spanish. Unlike English, millón is treated as a noun, so it requires the preposition de before the thing being counted: un millón de dólares, not un millón dólares.
Pronounce un millón as oon mee-YOHN, with a strong nasal stress on the final syllable.
La ciudad tiene más de un millón de habitantes.
The city has more than one million inhabitants.
How Native Speakers Use Un Millón
Real example sentences across three contexts you'll actually run into.
Population statistic
Buenos Aires tiene casi tres millones de personas.
Buenos Aires has almost three million people.
Citing demographic data.
Financial context
La empresa ganó un millón de euros el año pasado.
The company earned one million euros last year.
Discussing business revenue.
Hyperbolic expression
Te lo he dicho un millón de veces.
I've told you a million times.
Exaggerating to emphasize a point.
Avoid These Mistakes When Using Un Millón
Omitting de after millón
Incorrect: Un millón personas viven aquí.
Correct: Un millón de personas viven aquí.
Millón is a noun in Spanish and requires the preposition de before the object being counted.
Wrong plural form
Incorrect: Dos millónes de dólares.
Correct: Dos millones de dólares.
The plural of millón is millones (no accent), not millónes.
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Common Questions About 1 Million in Spanish
- How do you say '1 million' in Spanish?
- One million is un millón in Spanish, always followed by de when a noun comes after it: un millón de cosas (a million things).
- Why does millón need the word 'de' after it?
- In Spanish, millón functions grammatically as a noun rather than an adjective, so it requires the preposition de to connect to whatever is being counted, unlike lower numbers.
- How do you write large numbers in Spanish?
- Spanish uses periods as thousands separators and commas for decimals, so one million is written 1.000.000 in most Spanish-speaking countries, the opposite of English convention.