"Hai mille amici."

Translation: You have a thousand friends.

[hybridpro]

on facebook.

[HydraBianca]

came here for that.

[rachelm55]

But when the statement is "You have a million friends," the correct answer is "Hai un milione di amici." Why isn't it, "Hai un mille di amici"?

[DanStracco]

I believe that would also be correct

[SchubertNo21]

No, Mille = a or one thousand. so you would be adding a second 'un'.
Like most languages they can be misleading at times.

[chris.stan2]

You must have won the lottery

[jess28423]

he didn't say girlfriends

[dwarven_hydra]

A Netherlander would never have that many! They're very picky about friends.

[steven.van4]

Speak for yourself. Besides, a Netherlander?

[Curtis5888]

I think "You have A LOT of friends" should be accepted. Similar to "Grazie mille", which means "Thanks a lot". Right?!!

[mimiducky]

Seems like this (for once) is similar to French - 'mille amis' (no preposition), but 'un million d'amis' (preposition required). Reasoning is, I guess, that 'mille' is a number, like 3 or 4. 'Million' is a quantity, like a kilo, so it needs 'of' after it. Anything like million, billion, trillion is treated as a quantity.

[amin-915]

Dalle facebook

[iuli9]

Why -You have thousands of friends - doesn't work?

[ferrimed]

thousands implies more than "1.000", for instance: 2000 or 3000

[erdnaoluap]

Yes, but how would it be written in Italian? Come si dice "You have thousands of friends" in italiano?

[ferrimed]

maybe: "hai migliaia di amici"? ???

[erdnaoluap]

Well, I wondered that too, but I think that "migliaia" requires "una" before, just because it's an undefined number(of friends). If you or someone else is able to confirm, please tell us all. Thanks.

[gerdadb]

migliaia è plurale dunque senza articolo una

[EinarBerg]

Why not "You have thousand friends"? Why must it be a particular "a" thousand friends?

[Rafael82742]

Can we say: many friends. It looks like no one counts their friend when is behond a big number. I do not know if i am using a coloquial form but it seems that having many friends could be a more accurate answer that of a legal y litteral one.

[EdwardDunne]

This would be odd in reality--exactly one thousand friends. Seems unlikely. In AE we often say "thousands" to mean very many, but not exactly a specified number. I think "you have thousands of friends" would make more sense here. JMTC!

[franksk]

I thought that "di" was mandatory when saying a number of a countable noun?

[Kazare]

I put "Hai un mille amici" and was marked wrong. Why is "un" incorrect here?

[Macossay]

Because mille already means "one thousand," or "a thousand." Two thousand would be duemila and thousands is migliaia.

[Maxrivers2]

Sono tutto solo

[evanann123t]

i wisb i could relate

[evanann123t]

wish

[peggy582366]

One day it's zero, then a thousand. What changed?

[Tony673811]

We are told that all vowels are pronounced in Italian yet the speaker does not pronounce the last e of mille, prompting me to put an apostrophe before amici. Marked wrong of course. What are the pronunciation rules here?

[margherita809279]

Please explain the differences in 'Ho un milione de amici'and 'hai mille amici'.