French Quantifiers and Comparative Phrases: Vocabulary and Usage

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An extra / additional guest / book

un invité / livre supplémentaire / de plus

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I am the one who reads (the) most.

C'est moi qui lis le plus.

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There are twice as many students in your group.

Il y a deux fois plus d'étudiants dans ton groupe.

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They have twice as much work as last year.

Ils ont deux fois plus de travail que l'année dernière.

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There are half as many students...

Il y a deux fois moins d'étudiants...

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He is three times as rich as I am.

Il est trois fois plus riche que moi.

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We need another ten books

We need ten more books. = Nous avons besoin de dix livres de plus.

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We're all getting older and older.

Nous devenons tous de plus en plus vieux.

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He's getting more and more reasonable.

Il devient de plus en plus raisonnable.

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The more I work, the more I know.

Plus je travaille, plus je sais de choses.

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The more I know him, the less I like him.

Plus je le connais, moins il me plaît.

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The less you know, the less you feel the need to learn.

Moins on sait de choses, moins on ressent la nécessité d'apprendre.

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The more you get, the more you want.

On veut toujours plus. / On n'est jamais content de ce qu'on a.

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We have as much work as last week.

Nous avons autant de travail que la semaine dernière.

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There are not as many students as last year / There are fewer students than last year.

Il n'y a pas autant d'étudiants que / Il y a moins d'étudiants que l'année dernière.

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She is as amusing as he is / as him.

Elle est aussi amusante que lui.

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The more, the merrier.

Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.

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More haste, less speed.

Rien ne sert de courir, il faut partir à point.

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to decrease by / to diminish by / to fall by / to go down by / to drop by**

diminuer de

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to rocket

monter en flèche

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Prices have increased / risen by 10%.

Les prix ont augmenté de 10 %.

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There has been an increase / a rise /a reduction / cut / decrease / diminution in our expenses.

Il y a eu une augmentation / une réduction de nos dépenses.

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The crisis is due to a fall / a drop in world supplies.

La crise est due à une chute des réserves mondiales.

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a dozen eggs, two hundred people, three thousand books, two hundred thousand people, four million demonstrators

une douzaine d'œufs, deux cents personnes, trois mille livres, deux cent mille personnes, quatre millions de manifestants

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tens / dozens / scores / hundreds / thousands / millions of books

des dizaines / douzaines / vingtaines / centaines / milliers / millions de livres

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a thousand million / US a billion

un milliard

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UK a billion / US a trillion

un billion

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five thousand six hundred and ten

cinq mille six cent dix

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Approximate quantities: twenty or so :/ roughly twenty / about twenty /a score or so

environ vingt / une vingtaine

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a hundred or so / roughly a hundred / about a hundred

environ cent / une centaine

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the umpteenth

le / la énième

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Not (even) if I live to be a hundred!

Jamais, au grand jamais !

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I'll die a thousand deaths.

Je mourrai de honte.

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She feels like a million dollars.

Elle se sent des ailes. / La terre ne peut plus la porter.

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She looks like a million dollars.

Elle est superbe.

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She is one in a million.

Elle est unique.

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sufficient → insufficient

en quantité suffisante → insuffisant/e

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(in)sufficiently, insufficiency

(in)suffisamment, insuffisance

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scarce

rare (= peu abondant)

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scarcity, scarcely

barely = la pénurie, à peine / tout juste

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sparse

rare / peu abondant/e (= clairsemé/e)

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sparsely

peu

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rare → rarely

seldom = rare (objet d'art, mot) → rarement

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short (of) → a shortage / dearth of sth

(à) court (de) → une pénurie de

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plenty → plentiful → plentifully

l'abondance → abondant/e → en abondance

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superfluous

superflu/e

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many (+ count.)

a lot of / lots of = une bonne / grande quantité (de)

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wholly

entièrement

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most (+ N pl.) : the majority of

la plupart de/s

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quite a few /a fair quantity of

pas mal de

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The country is sparsely populated and food is scarce.

Le pays est peu peuplé et la nourriture peu abondante.

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There is plenty of fresh fruit.

Il y a abondance de fruits.

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There is a plentiful supply of food : food is plentiful.

Il y a de la nourriture en abondance.

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This is a land of plenty.

C'est une terre d'abondance.

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I have plenty to do.

J'ai beaucoup de choses à faire.

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I'm short of money.

Je suis à court d'argent.

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He was 10 points short in the test.

Il lui a manqué 10 points au contrôle.

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He does not have any work to do. : He has no work to do.

Il n'a aucun travail à faire.

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He didn't work enough. : He didn't do enough work.

Il n'a pas assez travaillé. : Il n'a pas fourni assez de travail.

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He is not mature enough.

Il n'est pas assez mûr.

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There were a lot of / lots of reasons for doing this.

Il y avait de nombreuses raisons de faire cela.

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She did a lot of / a great deal of work during her stay.

Elle a abattu beaucoup de besogne pendant son séjour.

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all the faculty : the whole faculty

la totalité du corps enseignant

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in all (en tout), all in all

tout bien considéré

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There's many a man got lost in this forest.

Ils sont nombreux à s'être perdus dans ces bois.

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He is the only person I know.

C'est la seule personne que je connaisse.

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a good many people : quite a lot of people

pas mal de gens

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"Are you tired?" "A little."

« Êtes-vous fatigué ? - Un peu. »

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one man in four / five / etc.

un homme sur quatre / cinq / etc.

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Both you and me.

Nous deux. / Vous et moi.

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both of us / them : the two of us / them

tous les deux

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They are both coming.

Ils viennent tous les deux.

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They are both charming and clever.

Ils sont à la fois charmants et intelligents.

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each and everyone

absolument tout le monde

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Many a little makes a mickle.

Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières.

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at (the) most → at the very most

au plus → tout au plus

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a dwarf [dwɔːf] → dwarfish

un nain → tout petit

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big / large [lɑːdʒ] → to enlarge

gros/se → (s')agrandir

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huge [hjuːdʒ] : enormous [ɪˈnɔːməs]

énorme

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hugeness : enormousness

l'énormité / l'obésité

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bulk [bʌlk] → bulky : voluminous

la masse → volumineux/-se

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heavy [ˈhevi] → heaviness

lourd/e → la lourdeur / le poids

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light [laɪt] → lightness, to lighten

léger/-ère → la légèreté, alléger

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to grow [ɡrəʊ] → growth*

grandir → la croissance

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to shrink [ʃrɪŋk] → shrinkage*

(se) rétrécir → le rétrécissement

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to get / grow smaller / larger : bigger / taller / slimmer / thicker / heavier**

rapetisser / grossir / grandir / mincir / épaissir / s'alourdir

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It is the size of a pea.

C'est de la taille d'un pois.

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He is 1.83 m tall : 6 feet tall.

Il mesure 1,83 mètres.

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He is of average : medium height / weight.

Il est de taille moyenne / de poids moyen.

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They are the same height.

Ils sont de la même taille.

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4 34

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10

6 36

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12

8 38-40

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14

10 42

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16

12 44-46

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18

14 48

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20

16 50

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3

6 35

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3 1/2

6 1/2 36

100
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4

7 37