too much

English

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Adverb

too much (not comparable)

1. Excessively.

   You talk too much.

   You ate too much cake at the party, and that's why you feel sick.

Translations

excessively

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: demasiao (ast)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: massa (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太多 (tài duō) (verb + 得 (de) + 太多)

• Czech: příliš (cs)
• Danish: for meget (da)
• Faroese: ov nógv (fo)
• Finnish: liikaa (fi)
• French: trop (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: zu viel (de)
• Interlingua: troppo (ia)
• Italian: troppo (it)

• Japanese: 多すぎる (おおすぎる, ō-sugiru) (only of quantity), すぎる (ja) (すぎる, sugiru) (verb or adjective suffix; grammatical verb, e.g. 飲みすぎる (nomisugiru) - to drink too much))
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• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: demais (pt)
• Russian: слишком много (slíškom mnógo) (usually of quantity), слишком (ru) (slíškom)
• Spanish: demasiado (es)
• Svan: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: för mycket (sv)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tok Pisin: tumas (tpi)
• Tuvan: эмин эртир (emin ertir)

Adjective

too much (not comparable)

1. (informal) Amusing; entertaining.

   Oh, my dear, you really are too much.

Noun

too much (uncountable)

1. A quantity which is excessive to the point of being inappropriate, harmful, or overwhelming.

   You expect too much from your employees.

Interjection

too much !

1. An expression of satisfaction.

   Too much, man! That was great!

Translations

an expression of satisfaction

• Finnish: riittää (fi)

• Icelandic: vá!

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, interjection, or noun too much

too much information

too much of a good thing

too much love will kill you

See also

• too many

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French

Etymology

From English too much.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tu.mœtʃ/

Adjective

too much m (feminine too muche, masculine plural too muchs, feminine plural too muches)

1. (colloquial) too much, excessive, OTT
   • 1995, Frédéric Dard, Les huîtres me font bâiller:

     Tu vas gueuler que c'est too much ; que je sors de l'admissible.

     You're going to yell that this is too much – that I've gone beyond the bounds of probability.

   • 2013, Emmanuèle Peyret, Libération, 31 May 2013:

     Oh ben volontiers un de chaque, mais pas le slip dentelle avec les jarretelles rouges, ça fait un peu too much.

     Go on then, one of each – but not the lace knickers with red suspenders, that's a bit OTT.

Usage notes

• Used predicatively