mucho
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mucho (not comparable)
- (often humorous) Much; a great deal of.
- 1978, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein (lyrics and music), “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie, Chrysalis Records:
- Seemed like the real thing, only to find / Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
- 1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.
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mucho (not comparable)
- (often humorous) very
- 2014 November 7, Hadley Freeman, “God save us from the philosemitism of Burchill, Amis and Mensch”, in The Guardian[2]:
- And this makes sense because, as with Burchill, Amis’s philosemitism is quasi-sexual and mucho ridiculous.
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mucho f
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish mucho, from Latin multus (“much, many”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tos (“crumbled, crumpled”, past passive participle). Compare the Portuguese muito (“much, many, a lot”). Unrelated to English much, which is related to archaic Spanish maño (“big”) (the second element in tamaño).
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Determiner edit
mucho m sg (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)
- (in the singular) much, a lot of
- No tengo mucho dinero.
- I don't have much money.
- Tengo mucho dinero.
- I have a lot of money.
- (in the plural) many, a lot of
- Tengo muchas monedas.
- I have many coins.
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Adverb edit
mucho
- much, a lot, far, way
- Es mucho más difícil salir que entrar.
- It is way harder to get out than to get in.
- La situación real era mucho más complicada de lo que se sugería en el documento.
- The real situation was far more complicated than was suggested in the document.
- long, a long time
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mucho m (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)
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Further reading edit
- “mucho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014