many

many
[ʼmeni] pron
(a great number) viele;
he has loved \many but married none er hat viele geliebt, aber keine geheiratet;
too \many zu viele;
\many is the ... (hum) viele ...;
\many is the hour I've spent by the telephone just waiting in case he should call ich habe viele Stunden am Telefon verbracht und auf seinen Anruf gewartet;
\many is the man who's come out of her office trembling viele Männer sind zitternd aus ihrem Büro gekommen;
as \many genauso viele;
ten people died in the tornado in the South and as \many in the flood in the Midwest zehn Menschen starben bei dem Tornado im Süden und genauso viele bei der Flut im Mittleren Westen;
as \many again nochmals so viele;
there are already twelve bottles of wine, so if I buy as \many again, we'll have enough hier sind bereits zwölf Flaschen Wein, wenn ich nochmals so viele kaufe, haben wir genug;
as \many as ... so viele wie ...;
as \many as 6,000 people may have been infected with the disease bereits 6.000 Menschen können mit der Krankheit infiziert sein;
as \many as we invited came to the party zu der Party kamen so viele Leute, wie wir eingeladen hatten;
\many of sb/sth viele von jd/etw;
the solution to \many of our problems die Lösung zu vielen von unseren Problemen;
a good [or great] \many of sb/sth eine hübsche Zahl von jd/etw;
a good \many of us viele von uns;
\many a/an ... manch ein ...;
\many a man has been destroyed by booze viele Menschen gingen am Alkohol zugrunde;
\many a time oft
PHRASES:
there's \many a slip between [or twixt] cup and lip (cup and lip) zwischen Theorie und Praxis liegen oft Welten;
to have one too \many einen sitzen haben n
(the majority)
the \many pl die Mehrheit sing;
although blacks in South Africa were the \many, they were repressed by the whites there zwar waren die Schwarzen in Südafrika in der Mehrheit, doch wurden sie von den Weißen unterdrückt;
music for the \many Musik für die breite Masse

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