many

Etymology
From, , , from , , , from , from.

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The noun is from, , from , , from , , from , , from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Determiner

 * 1) An indefinite large number of.
 * We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
 * There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
 * I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
 * We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
 * There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
 * I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
 * We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
 * There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
 * I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
 * We don't need this many bananas. Put some back.
 * There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
 * I don't have as many friends as my sister does.
 * There may be as many as ten million species of insect.
 * I don't have as many friends as my sister does.

Usage notes

 * Many is used only with the plural of countable nouns (except in the combination many a). Its counterpart used with uncountable nouns is much. Many and much merge in the comparative and superlative forms, which are more and most for both determiners.


 * It was once common to use the indefinite article with many (very a many years ago), as it still is with few (a few good men). However, this has fallen out of favor except in formations such as "a great/good many."

Translations

 * Adyghe: ӏаджэ
 * Afrikaans:, menige
 * Akan: horow, ahorow
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp 5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp
 * Amharic: ብዙ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian: كتير
 * Hijazi Arabic: كَثير
 * Aragonese: muitos, muitas
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Balinese: liu, akéh
 * Bashkir: күп
 * Belarusian: мно́гія,, мно́га,
 * Bikol Central: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, များကြီး
 * Carpathian Rusyn: много
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: дукха
 * Cherokee: ᏥᏈᏍᏗ, ᎤᎪᏗᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好多
 * Dungan: дуә
 * Eastern Min: 濟
 * Hakka: 多
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Northern Min: 濟
 * Wu: 多
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: mult, muolt
 * Danish:, mangen
 * Dolgan: үгүс
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, nógvur
 * Finnish:, , see also Thesaurus:runsaasti
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: moitos, moitas, muitos, muitas
 * Ge'ez: ብዙኅ
 * Georgian: ბევრი, მრავალი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌲𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πολλοί, πολλαί, πολλά
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: anpil
 * Hawaiian: he nui
 * Hebrew: רַבִּים,
 * Hindi:, , , ज़्यादा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: ìmìlìkiti
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: paljo, moni, ussia, isost, äijä
 * Ingush: дуккха
 * Interlingua: multe
 * Irish: a lán, mórán
 * Old Irish: il, imdae
 * Isan:
 * Italian:, un gran numero di
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Carakan: ,
 * Rumi: ,
 * Jingpho: law
 * Kabardian: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: -ingĩ
 * Kituba: mingi
 * Kongo: mingi
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گەلێک,
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lao: ຫຼາຍ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: (+ genitive),
 * Ligurian: molto
 * Lingala: mingi
 * Lithuanian:, daugelis
 * Low German: männige,  männigen,  männigene,  männigein,  männigeine, vęle, vęl
 * Lü:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maore Comorian: engi
 * Mirandese: muitos, muitas
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: эгди
 * Navajo: ląʼí, łą́, łání, tʼóó ahayóí, ahoniiʼyóí (be many)
 * Ngazidja Comorian: indji
 * North Frisian: fuul
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: feolo, feola
 * Old Norse: margr
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Pirahã: xaíbái
 * Plautdietsch: väl
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, multe
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Scots: mony
 * Scottish Gaelic: iomadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:, много, , многи
 * Shan:
 * Sherpa: མང་མུ
 * Sicilian:
 * Skolt Sami: mäŋgg
 * Slovak: mnohý, mnohá, mnohé, mnohí, mnohé, mnoho, veľa
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wjele
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: furu
 * Sundanese: seueur
 * Swahili: ingi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, , , ,
 * Tibetan: མང་པོ
 * Tocharian A: māk
 * Tocharian B: māka
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian:, чима́ло
 * Urdu: بہت, زیادہ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: da-mo
 * Welsh: llawer
 * West Frisian: protte, folle
 * Yakut: элбэх, үгүс
 * Yiddish: אַ סך
 * Zealandic: vee
 * Zhuang: haujlai, lai

Pronoun

 * 1) An indefinite large number of people or things.

Translations

 * Amharic: ብዙ
 * Arabic:, متعدد
 * Bengali:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, un grand nombre
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: многумина, мноштво
 * Pashto:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Thai:
 * Zhuang: geij, geijlai

Noun

 * 1) A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
 * 2) A considerable number.
 * 1) A considerable number.
 * 1) A considerable number.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: le plus grand nombre
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Macedonian: мноштво, многумина
 * Pashto:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:

Adjective

 * 1) Existing in large number; numerous.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:manifold

Pronoun

 * 1)  you

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) meaning, sense

Etymology
From, from , from.