mucho

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish mucho.

Adjective[edit]

mucho (not comparable)

  1. (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.

Adverb[edit]

mucho (not comparable)

  1. (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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Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.xɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uxɔ
  • Syllabification: mu‧cho

Noun[edit]

mucho f

  1. vocative singular of mucha

Spanish[edit]

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).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmut͡ʃo/ [ˈmu.t͡ʃo]
  • Audio (Peru):(file)
  • Rhymes: -utʃo
  • Syllabification: mu‧cho

Determiner[edit]

mucho m sg (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

  1. (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.
  2. (in the plural) many, a lot of
    Tengo muchas monedas.
    I have many coins.

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Adverb[edit]

mucho

  1. 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.
  2. long, a long time

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Pronoun[edit]

mucho m (feminine mucha, masculine plural muchos, feminine plural muchas)

  1. a lot, many

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