"Hai mille amici."
Translation:You have a thousand friends.
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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"?
No, Mille = a or one thousand. so you would be adding a second 'un'. Like most languages they can be misleading at times.
A Netherlander would never have that many! They're very picky about friends.
Why not "You have thousand friends"? Why must it be a particular "a" thousand friends?
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.
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I think "You have A LOT of friends" should be accepted. Similar to "Grazie mille", which means "Thanks a lot". Right?!!
A lot is not interchangeable with a thousand. No expression of that type in the English language.
This is so stupid... _You have thousand friends" isnwrong!!! "A" thousand friends??? "A"???? What kind of English is this?Drunk Pub English???
Yes, but how would it be written in Italian? Come si dice "You have thousands of friends" in italiano?
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.
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I am not an English native speaker, but which is correct, You have thousand friends or, You have A thousand friends
