Usage examples of "mille" in French with translation to English

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Translations: all75 thousand39 mile11 other translations25
Je lui dois mille yens. I owe him 1000 yen.
Chaque personne a payé mille dollars. Each individual paid 1,000 dollars.
Chaque personne a payé sept mille dollars. Each individual paid 7000 dollars.
Elle déchira en mille morceaux la lettre. She tore the letter to pieces.
Le vase se brisa en mille morceaux. The vase crashed to pieces.
Ce dictionnaire comporte environ quarante mille entrées. This dictionary has about 40,000 entries.
Non ! Tu vas exploser en mille morceaux ! No! You'll be blown to smithereens!
Il m'a donné dix mille yen. He gave me 10,000 yen.
Je n'avais pas plus de mille yens. I didn't have more than 1,000 yen.
Environ mille tonnes de farine sont exportées chaque année. About two million pounds of flour are exported annually.
Pas moins de mille personnes vinrent à la fête. No less than 1,000 people came to the party.
J'ai payé quarante mille yens pour cet enregistreur. I paid 40,000 yen for this tape recorder.
Plus de dix mille personnes ont signé la pétition. More than 10,000 people signed the petition.
L'agriculture fut élaborée il y a plus de dix mille ans. Agriculture was developed more than 10,000 years ago.
Je suis né en mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-huit à York. I was born in 1988 in York
Son entreprise a été démarrée avec un capital de deux mille dollars. Her business was started with capital of $2000.
Ma femme a accouché prématurément d'une fillette de mille cinq cents grammes. My wife gave birth prematurely to a 1500-gram baby girl.
Après trois heures au casino il est à deux mille dollars dans le rouge. After three hours in the casino, he's $2,000 in the hole.
La zone au-dessus de huit mille mètres est connue comme zone de la mort. The zone above 8000m is known as the death zone.
Thomas est l'un des plus de trois mille détenus dans le couloir de la mort. Tom is one of the more than 3,000 inmates on death row.
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