manch

Etymology
From, from. The -ch is due to the traditional fricative pronunciation of non-initial -g- in Central German dialects. The spelling became predominant in Early New High German, possibly reinforced by the similar clusters in and. The original form has remained in, , , etc. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  many a; many; some

Usage notes

 * Only the inflected forms are commonly used in colloquial and informal German.
 * The bare form is sometimes used with a following adjective in literary German: manch schön er Tag instead of manch er schön e Tag – “many a beautiful day”. (Note the consequent change in the declension of the adjective.) The bare form without a following adjective is poetic.