/boku/
Translation
a lot, much, many
Word origin
A compound of Old French beau ('fine, fair', from Latin bellus) and coup ('blow, stroke', from Latin colpus). Literally 'a fine blow', it came to mean 'much, many'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bellus + colpus
Examples
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He reads a lot of crime novels during his summer holidays.
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Thank you very much for your help on this difficult case.
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She plays the piano much better since she started lessons.
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There is a lot left to do before the end of the project.
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Many of us think the same thing.
est un adverbe de quantité invariable. Devant un nom, il se construit avec de sans article : beaucoup de gens, beaucoup d'eau. Après un verbe, il se place après l'auxiliaire dans les temps composés : j'ai beaucoup travaillé. Il ne s'accorde jamais.
De beaucoup renforce un comparatif ou un superlatif : il est de beaucoup le meilleur (by far the best). Pas beaucoup (not much, not many) est la négation courante. Beaucoup ne peut pas qualifier directement un adjectif ou un adverbe - on utilise très : très fatigué (not beaucoup fatigué).
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(14)Seule dans la nuit
2 min read · Core 1000
Chez le médecin
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le coup de téléphone
3 min read · Core 1000
Le dernier train de la nuit
3 min read · Core 1000
Le nouveau docteur
3 min read · Core 1000
Le nouveau voisin
3 min read · Core 1000
Perdu en ville
3 min read · Core 1000
Un matin au marché
3 min read · Core 1000
Clara trouve sa place
4 min read · Core 1000
Le bureau de Lucie
4 min read · Core 5000
Mathieu revient en ville
4 min read · Core 1000
Une rencontre au marché
4 min read · Core 1000
Pas devant les clients
5 min read · Core 1000
Grammar articles
(14)Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
Avoiding the Passive in French: on, se and the Active Recast
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
How to Say Therefore, So, Thus and Hence in French
How to Say However, Although, Even Though and Despite in French
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
dont in Depth: The French de Relative Pronoun
French Greetings and Survival Phrases: Say Something Today
French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
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