1500 in French
mille cinq cents
Updated June 2026
1500; round historical year
NUMERAL
1 500
FRENCH
mille cinq cents
IPA
/mil sɛ̃ sɑ̃/
Breakdown
Real sentence examples
“En l'an mille cinq cents, l'Europe médiévale arrive à sa fin.”
“Mille cinq cents euros suffisent pour louer un studio à 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.
Frequently asked questions
How do you say 1500 in French?
1,500 in French is "mille cinq cents". It is built as 1000 + 500 = 1500.
How is mille cinq cents (1500) pronounced in French?
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, "mille cinq cents" is transcribed /mil sɛ̃ sɑ̃/. Use the audio button on this page to hear the standard French pronunciation.
How is 1500 used in a French sentence?
A natural example is: "En l'an mille cinq cents, l'Europe médiévale arrive à sa fin."
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