1500 in French
mille cinq cents
Spellings verified June 2026 · page updated 2 October 2026
1500; round historical year
NUMERAL
1 500
FRENCH
mille cinq cents
IPA
/mil sɛ̃ sɑ̃/
Breakdown
Ordinal form
Ranking things rather than counting them: 1,500 becomes mille cinq centième, written 1 500e in figures.
MASCULINE
mille cinq centième
1 500e
FEMININE
mille cinq centième
1 500e (same word as the masculine)
French writes the abbreviation with a plain e, never ème: 1 500e. The Académie française allows two irregular pairs: premier and première abbreviate 1er and 1re, and second and seconde abbreviate 2d and 2de. Full rules on the ordinal numbers reference.
Counting around 1500
1 499
mille quatre cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
1 500
mille cinq cents
1 501
mille cinq cent un
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.
What is the ordinal form of 1500 in French?
The ordinal for 1500 is "mille cinq centième", abbreviated 1 500e. The form is the same in the masculine and the feminine.
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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