Japanese

せん
Meaning: thousand
Part of Speech: Noun, Number

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Example sentences

千円貸してください。
Please lend me a thousand yen.
一人につき、千円です。
It is 1,000 yen per person.
財布には千円だけしか残っていなかった。
There was only a thousand yen left in my wallet.
その将軍は、数千人の配下を引き連れて戦場に向かった。
The general led thousands of his subordinates to the battlefield.
たかだか数千円のことだから、気にするな。
It's only a few thousand yen, so don't worry about it.

Usage Notes

Basic number for 1,000. It can also figuratively mean 'a great many' as in '千差万別' (infinite variety).

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