many a

Determiner

 * 1) Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.

Usage notes

 * Many a or an is followed by a singular noun. If the resulting noun phrase is used as the grammatical subject of a clause, the verb it controls is also singular (the idiom is distributive rather than aggregate in sense). The use of a versus an follows the usage notes detailed for the article.

Translations

 * Czech: ,
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mang en, mangen, mangt et
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,