No. 1,605 in Russian
тыс
The Russian word "тыс" is an abbreviation for "тысяча," meaning "thousand" in English.
In a sentence
В этом году я прочитал более пяти тыс книг.
This year I read over five thousand books.
Here, 'тыс' is used as an abbreviation for 'тысяч', which means 'thousand' when referring to a quantity.
Билеты на концерт стоили две тыс рублей.
The concert tickets cost two thousand rubles.
In this context, 'тыс' stands for 'тысяч' to indicate a number in thousands, specifically for money.
Компания заработала около 10 тыс долларов за месяц.
The company earned about 10 thousand dollars in a month.
'Тыc' here again abbreviates 'тысяч', simplifying the expression of amounts by omitting the full word.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “тыс” in actual Russian podcasts.
Find “тыс” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Russian podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into русский, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Russian books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).