No. 8,021 in German
hunderttausend
One hundred thousand.
In a sentence
Es gibt hunderttausend Sterne im Nachthimmel.
There are a hundred thousand stars in the night sky.
The term 'hunderttausend' is used as a numeral here to represent the quantity of stars.
Hunderttausend Kilometer entfernt liegt eine unbekannte Galaxie.
A hundred thousand kilometers away lies an unknown galaxy.
Here, 'hunderttausend' quantifies the distance, demonstrating its use in describing measurements in numbers.
Er hat hunderttausend Möglichkeiten, diese Aufgabe zu lösen.
He has a hundred thousand possibilities to solve this task.
'Hunderttausend' expresses a metaphorical large number of options, showing its use in figurative speech.
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