Question

In "mille sept cent" the "pt" in sept is not pronounced - right?
Thank you

Answer 1

The p in sept is not pronounced.

Answer 2

Actually I think it was supposed to read:
mil sept cents (not mille)
And I think that neither the "p" not the "t" are pronounced when the word "sept" is followed by a word starting with a consonant?

Answer 3

It is supposed to read

Mil<i>le</i> se<i>p</i>t cent<i>s</i>.

The word sept is very special. Of all the common French words that start with <i>sept</i>, only in four words the p is not pronounced:
sept (seven)
septième (seventh)
septmoncel (a cheese)
septain (a seven verse poem)

Even in the old word for seventy (septant) still used in Belgium, the p is pronounced.

Answer 4

correction:
Even in the old word for seventy (septante) ...

Answer 5

That's septième. If you tell us whether you have a PC or a MAC, we can send you to way to make accent marks with the computer. We should also know if you have Windows or not.

Sra (aka Mme)

Answer 6

Doesn't septieme mean seventh?

Answer 7

Yes, septième means seventh.
Sorry for the misprint (an encoding problem with the computer)

Answer 8

You are right, it IS MILLE sept cent, except when it is used for DATES, then it is MIL (that's what I was thinking of when I wrote "mil")

Answer 9

Sorry, I thought you were referring to pronounciation.

In any case, mille is pronounced [mil], the same as mil [mil].

For the new pronounciation question you have for SraJMcGin, the stated rule applies to 5 and 8. For 6 and 10 there is a separate rule but none for 7 and 9.

For your information, I reproduce from <i>Le Petit Robert</i> the pronounciation rules, if any, for the numbers 5-10.

(REM. Cinq se prononce [sR] devant un nom commençant par une consonne; [sRk] dans les autres cas, et fam. devant un nom commençant par une consonne.)

REM. Six se prononce [si] devant un nom commençant par une consonne; [siz] devant un nom commençant par une voyelle; [sis] dans les autres cas.

sept [set]
neuf [nZf]

(prononcé ['Pi] devant un mot commençant par une consonne, ['Pit] dans tous les autres cas)

dix [dis] devant une pause; [di] devant une consonne; [diz] devant une voyelle

Note that the pronounciation code letters are not reproduced correctly for the vowels and for the beginning of "huit". It should be clear for the ending consonants.