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French help PLEASE!! Another fancier way of saying beaucoup de?

i'm using beaucoup de FAR too much in my speech. My teacher wants us to use year 13/7th form/senior structures in our writing and mine is too basic. Any suggestions???

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  • Dee J
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    You need to find appropriate words to replace 'lots of'.

    Think of what you'd say in English for example for the following and just try to apply the same thing elsewhere.

    lots of people = a crowd

    bcp de gens = une foule

    lots of times = often

    bcp de fois = souvent

    lots of work = tiring/difficult

    bcp de travail = penible

    lots of imagination = creative

    bcp d'imagination = creatif/une imagination feconde

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    be careful, "far too much/many" means "beaucoup trop de"

    "beaucoup de" is "a lot of / much / many"

    if you mean "beaucoup de" we also use in French the adverb "énormément" (literally "enormously") e.g

    >He knows many / lots of people here = il connaît beaucoup / énormément de gens ici" and more familiar "un tas de" which litterally means "a heap of" which is "heaps of" in correct English.

    If you mean "far too much/many" it's "beaucoup trop de" which can be replaced by "bien trop de" e.g

    Il y a beaucoup trop de gens/pollution ici = bien trop de gens/pollution ici = far too many people / too much pollution

    Source(s): I'm French*
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