mil in Spanish - meaning & frequency

Part of speech: num
Frequency rank: #694 of 5,000

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"mil" in example sentences

"mil" appears in 159 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

¡No, no y mil veces no!

No! No! A thousand times, no!

Tatoeba #10948598

Fue en el año dos mil.

This was in year two thousand.

Tatoeba #605513

Los ojos dicen más que mil palabras.

The eyes say more than a thousand words.

Tatoeba #1340101

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "mil"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "mil"; the number is how many.

dólares24 millones11 costó9 diez18 pedazos3 metros4

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