1000 in French
mille
Updated May 2026
Mille never pluralises
NUMERAL
1 000
FRENCH
mille
IPA
/mil/
Breakdown
Standalone thousand (no article)
Real sentence examples
“Mille personnes etaient presentes au concert.”
“L'entreprise a mille employes.”
“Il habite a mille metres d'altitude.”
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Mille is invariable: it never takes a plural-s, regardless of multiplier (deux mille, dix mille, cent mille). It also never takes "un" before it: "mille personnes" not "un mille personnes". In date contexts, the older form "mil" is permitted (l'an mil neuf cent), though modern standard prefers "mille".
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