⚖️Les quantificateurs
Tout, quelques, rien, tout le monde, beaucoup, peu — quelle part du monde vous visez.
20 concepts
Les colonnes suivent les langues activées en haut. Le genre après le mot (m/f/n) ; l'API en dessous ; les notes, variantes et origines encore en dessous — rien n'est caché.
| Concept | English | Français | Español |
|---|---|---|---|
all pronoun | all | tout THE agreement set: tout /tu/, toute /tut/, tous /tu/, toutes /tut/ — and tous as a pronoun sounds its s: ils sont tous là /tus/. | todo Agrees: toda, todos, todas. Todo el día = all day; todos los días = every day. |
everything pronoun | everything | tout C'est tout = that's all. Tout va bien = everything's fine. | todo Same word as 'all': todo está bien. |
nothing pronoun | nothing | rien Ne … rien: je ne vois rien. De rien = you're welcome. | nada No … nada after the verb — the double negative is correct Spanish. De nada = you're welcome. |
everyone pronoun | everyone also: everybody Singular verb: everyone is here. | tout le monde Literally 'all the world' — singular verb: tout le monde est là. | todo el mundo also: todos Also 'all the world', also singular: todo el mundo lo sabe. |
nobody pronoun | nobody also: no one | personne The trap: une personne = a person, but bare personne with ne = nobody. Il n'y a personne = there's nobody. | nadie No … nadie after the verb: no hay nadie. |
many / much determiner | many also: much (uncountables) Much lives mostly in questions and negatives: not much time. | beaucoup de Always de, never des: beaucoup de gens, beaucoup d'eau. | mucho Agrees: mucha gente, muchos años, muchas gracias. |
few / little determiner | few also: little (uncountables) A few = some (positive); few = hardly any (negative). The article flips the meaning — and no other language here does it that way. French just uses two different words: peu de against quelques. | peu de Same flip: un peu de = a little (positive); peu de = little/few (negative). | poco Agrees: poca, pocos, pocas. Un poco de = a little. |
some determiner | some Weak form /səm/. Any in questions/negatives: do you have any? | des also: quelques, du / de la (uncountables) French demands an article where English drops it: j'ai des amis, je mange du pain. | algunos also: unos Often simply omitted: tengo amigos. Algún before a masculine singular: algún día. |
every / each determiner | every also: each Always singular: every day, each one. | chaque Invariable, always singular: chaque jour. The pronoun is chacun/chacune = each one. | cada Invariable: cada día, cada semana. Cada vez más = more and more. Plural 'every' = todos los: todos los días. |
other / another determiner | other also: another Another is just an + other fused — hence only with singulars. | autre Un autre / une autre; plural d'autres. L'autre jour = the other day. | otro NEVER 'un otro' — bare otro already means another: otra cerveza, por favor. |
the same adjective · comparison | the same Always with the: the same thing. Same here = me too (informal). | le même Agrees: la même, les mêmes. Watch out: même alone also = 'even' (même moi) and quand même = all the same/still. | el mismo Agrees: la misma, los mismos… Ahora mismo = right now; yo mismo = I myself. |
both pronoun | both | les deux also: tous les deux No single word — literally 'the two': j'aime les deux. | ambos also: los dos Feminine ambas. Los dos is the everyday choice; ambos is a notch more formal. |
half noun | half pl. halves Silent l; the plural swaps f for v. | moitiéf La moitié = the half (noun); the prefix is demi-: une demi-heure. | mitadf La mitad = the half; the adjective is medio/media: media hora. |
with preposition · quantity | with Accompaniment and instrument in one word — 'with my friend' and 'with a knife'. | avec Both senses, and the c is pronounced. | con Fuses with pronouns: conmigo, contigo — 'with me', 'with you'. |
without preposition · quantity | without 'Without' + -ing: without saying anything. | sans sans + bare infinitive: sans rien dire. And no article after it — sans voiture, not sans une voiture. | sin Also drops the article: sin coche. |
no / none / not any determiner · quantity | no also: none No + noun (no money); none on its own (I have none). | aucun Needs ne: je n'ai aucune idée. Agrees — aucun/aucune — and is almost always singular. | ningún Also needs a second negative: no tengo ninguna idea. Spanish stacks negatives happily. |
someone / somebody pronoun | someone someone and somebody are interchangeable. ANYONE is the question-and-negative counterpart, and most of these languages do not split the two. | quelqu'un The same quelque as quelque chose and quelques. Feminine quelqu'une exists and is rare. | alguien Pairs with nadie. Invariable — unlike alguno, which agrees. |
something pronoun | something And anything is again the question-and-negative twin. | quelque chose Two words, 'some thing' — and it is MASCULINE even though chose is feminine: quelque chose de bon. | algo Pairs with nada. One syllable and enormously common. |
several / a few determiner | several More than a couple, fewer than many. English is unusually precise about this middle band. | plusieurs Invariable, and it takes NO de: plusieurs livres, never plusieurs de livres. | varios Agrees: varios/varias. |
most / the majority determiner | most Suppletive: many, more, most — three unrelated roots, as in good/better/best. | la plupart 'The most part'. It takes a PLURAL verb despite being singular: la plupart des gens sont d'accord. | la mayoría 'The majority' — Spanish uses a noun where English uses a determiner. |