1500 in French
mille cinq cents
Updated May 2026
1500; round historical year
NUMERAL
1 500
FRENCH
mille cinq cents
IPA
/mil sɛ̃ sɑ̃/
Breakdown
1000 + 500 = 1500
Real sentence examples
“En l'an mille cinq cents, l'Europe medievale arrive a sa fin.”
“Mille cinq cents euros suffisent pour louer un studio a Paris.”
Year context
Year 1500: a round-millennium boundary often used as a historiographical division between medieval and early-modern Europe.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Mille cinq cents: cent takes the plural-s here because cents is the last counting word, multiplied by cinq, and nothing follows. Compare with mille cinq cent un (1501), where the s drops because un follows.
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