Many
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English
Etymology
Middle English manye, from Old English manig, mænig, from common Germanic *managa, from Proto-Indo-European *menegh- "copious".
Pronunciation
| IPA | SAMPA | |
|---|---|---|
| GenAm | /ˈmɛni/ | /"mEni/ |
- Rhymes: -ɛni
Adjective
many (comparative: more, superlative: most)
- An indefinite large number of.
- Many people enjoy using dictionaries
- There are many different ways to define a word
Translations
- Arabic: كَثِيرٌ (kaθíːr)
- Bulgarian: много (mnogo)
- Czech: mnoho
- Dutch: veel, vele
- German: viel, viele
- Finnish: moni, monta
- French: beaucoup
- German: viele
- Hungarian: sok
- Italian: molti
- Japanese: 多くの (おおくの, ōkuno), 多い (おおい, ōi), 沢山 (たくさん, takusán)
- Persian: زياد (ziād), چَندين (čændin)
- Polish: wiele
- Portuguese: muitos
- Romanian: mult m sg, multă f sg, mulţi m pl, multe f pl
- Russian: много (mnógo)
- Slovak: mnohý m sg, mnohá, f sg, mnohé n sg, mnohí m pl, mnohé f+n pl
- Spanish: mucho m sg, mucha f sg, muchos m pl, muchas f pl
- Swedish: många
Noun
many
- A collective mass of people
- Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many
- A great many do not understand this.
Pronoun
many
- An indefinite large number of people or things
- Many are called, but few are chosen.
