Apedia

çok Number Determiner Birçok People Lot  /ˈmeni   Large

Level A1 
Kind determiner
Front many 
IPA  /ˈmeni   / determiner
Back çok; birçok
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many (determiner)

 /ˈmeni   / determiner
 
 1 a large number of people or things
çok; birçok
 Have you made many friends at school yet?
 Not many of my friends smoke.
 Many of the mistakes were just careless.
 There are too many mistakes in this essay.
Many, olumlu cümlelerde oldukça resmîdir:
 Many people have smartphones nowadays.
 Resmî olmayan bir ortamda konuşurken veya yazarken a lot of kullanılır:
 A lot of schools teach computing nowadays.
 Olumsuz cümlelerde ve sorularda ise many rahatlıkla kullanılabilir ve resmî değildir:
 I don't know many cheap places to eat.
 Are there many hotels in this town?
 2 used to ask about the number of people or things, or to refer to a known number
kaç;
... kadar çok
 How many children have you got?
 How many times have you been there?
 How many came to the meeting?
 I don't work as many hours as you.
 There are half/twice as many boys as girls in the class.
 3 [in compounds]
having a lot of the thing mentioned
çok
 many-coloured
 a many-sided shape
 4 (many a)
 [used with a singular noun and verb]
a large number of
birçok
 I've heard him say that many a time.
IDIOM
a good/great many
very many
pek çok
 

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