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mie
thousand /ˈmi.e/
noun#813 most common
Also: a thousand units, (in idioms) a great many
Example sentences
Am o mie de lei.
I have a thousand lei.
Cartea aceasta costă o mie de lei.
This book costs a thousand lei.
În satul nostru locuiesc peste o mie de oameni.
More than a thousand people live in our village.
A câștigat o mie de euro la loterie.
He won a thousand euros in the lottery.
Distanța dintre cele două orașe este de aproape o mie de kilometri.
The distance between the two cities is nearly a thousand kilometers.
Se spune că au existat o mie de motive pentru eșecul planului, dar niciunul nu a fost cu adevărat convingător.
It is said there were a thousand reasons for the plan's failure, but none was truly convincing.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mie | mii |
| Genitive | mii | mii |
| Accusative | mie | mii |
| Vocative | mie | mii |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian "mie" comes from Latin "mīlia", the plural of "mīlle" (thousand). Vulgar Latin speakers in the region reanalyzed this plural form as a singular feminine noun, which is why Romanian says "o mie" (one thousand) but switches to the old plural shape "mii" for counts of two or more. The underlying Latin numeral traces back to a Proto-Indo-European word for thousand shared across several branches of the family.
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