No. 40 in Portuguese
mil
"Mil" means "thousand" in English.
In a sentence
Ele doou mil livros para a biblioteca.
He donated a thousand books to the library.
Here, 'mil' is used as a numeric adjective meaning 'thousand.'
Há mil maneiras de resolver esse problema.
There are a thousand ways to solve this problem.
In this sentence, 'mil' is used figuratively to denote an uncountable or infinite number, expressing a general notion of very many.
A produção da fábrica atingiu a marca de um mil unidades mensais.
The factory's production reached the mark of one thousand units per month.
Here, 'mil' works in conjunction with the word 'um' to form 'um mil,' specifying the number 1,000 in a formal count.
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