a lot

See also: alot, and allot

English

Alternative forms

alot (nonstandard)

Etymology

See lot.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə ˈlɒt/
- Audio (UK): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ə ˈlɑt/
Rhymes: -ɒt
Homophone: allot

Pronoun

a lot

(informal) A large amount.
I have a lot of things to say.
Many things, much.
A lot depends on whether your parents agree.

Derived terms

do a lot of work

Translations

a large amount

Albanian: shumë (sq)
Arabic: كَثِير (ar) (kaṯīr)
Egyptian Arabic: كتير (kitīr)

Hijazi Arabic: كثير (katīr, kaṯīr), كَتير (katīr)

Iraqi Arabic:هواية (hwāya)

North Levantine Arabic: كتير (ktīr)

South Levantine Arabic: كتير (ktīr)
Azerbaijani: çox (az)
Bashkir: күп (küp), байтаҡ (baytaq)
Belarusian: мно́га (mnóha), шмат (be) (šmat), бага́та (be) (baháta)
Bengali: অনেক (bn) (onek), বহু (bn) (bohu)
Bulgarian: мно́го (bg) (mnógo)
Burmese: များ (my) (mya:)
Carpathian Rusyn: мно́го (mnóho), ве́лё (véljo)
Catalan: molt (ca)
Cherokee: ᏥᏈᏍᏗ (tsiquisdi)
Chickasaw: lawa, i̠lawa
Chinese:
Cantonese: 好多 (hou² do¹), 大把 (daai⁶ baa²)

Mandarin: 很多 (zh) (hěn duō), 多 (zh) (duō)
Czech: spousta (cs) f, fůra (cs) f
Dutch: veel (nl)
Esperanto: multa (eo),multe da
Estonian: palju (et)
Finnish: paljon (fi)
French: beaucoup (fr)
Galician: lote (gl), mundo (gl) m, feixe (gl) m, morea (gl) f, ben de
Georgian: ბევრი (bevri), დიდძალი (didʒali)
German: viel (de)
Greek: (uncountably):πολλά (el) (pollá), (countably):πολύ (el) (polý)
Ancient: πλῆθος n (plêthos)
Hebrew: הַרבֵּה (he) (harbé)
Hindi: अधिक (hi) (adhik), बहुत (hi) (bahut)
Hungarian: sok (hu), egy csomó, egy rakat, számos (hu), rengeteg (hu)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Ingrian: paljo, koormittee
Irish: mórán m, neart m, a lán
Italian: molto (it), grande (it)
Jamaican Creole: a bag a, a crocus bag a
Japanese: 沢山 (ja) (たくさん, takusan), 多くの (ja) (おおくの, ōku no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ōi)
Jingpho: law
Kazakh: көп (kk) (köp)
Khmer: ច្រើន (km) (craən)
Korean: 많은 (ko) (maneun), 많이 (ko) (mani)
Kyrgyz: көп (ky) (köp)
Lao: ຫຼາຍ (lāi)
Latin: multus (la)
Latvian: daudz (lv)
Lithuanian: daug (lt)
Macedonian: многу (mk) (mnogu)
Malay: banyak (ms)
Manx: mooarane m
Mongolian: олон (mn) (olon)
Navajo: díí óolyé dooląął, tʼóó báhádzigo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: massevis

Nynorsk: massevis
Persian: مقدار زیاد (meqdâre ziyâd), زیاد (fa) (ziyâd), بسیار (fa) (besiyâr)
Plautdietsch: väl
Polish: wiele (pl), dużo (pl)
Portuguese: muito (pt), bastante (pt)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਬਥੇਰਾ m (batherā), ਬਥੇਰੀ f (batherī), ਬਥੇਰੇ pl (bathere)

Shahmukhi: بَتھیرا m (batherā), بَتھیرِی f (batherī), بَتھیرے pl (bathere)
Russian: мно́го (ru) (mnógo), нема́ло (ru) (nemálo), мно́гие (ru) pl (mnógije) (countable, also)
Sanskrit: बहु (sa) (bahu), अधिकम् (sa) (adhikam)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мно̏гӣ, мно̏го

Roman: mnȍgī (sh), mnȍgo (sh)
Sinhalese: බොහෝ (si) (bohō)
Slovak: veľa, mnoho
Slovene: veliko (sl), mnogo
Spanish: un montón (es) m (colloquial, countable), un bonche m (Latin America), un raudal m
Swahili: sana
Swedish: mycket (sv) (uncountable), många (sv) (countable), en hel del (sv) (either)
Tajik: бисёр (tg) (bisyor), хеле (tg) (xele)
Tamil: நிறைய (ta) (niṟaiya)
Thai: หลาย (th) (lǎai)
Turkish: çok (tr)
Turkmen: köp
Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto), чима́ло (čymálo)
Urdu: بہت (bahut)
Uyghur: جىق (jiq)
Uzbek: koʻp (uz)
Vietnamese: nhiều (vi), lắm (vi)
Yiddish: פֿיל (fil)
Zhuang: haujlai, lai

many things

Albanian: shumë (sq)
Azerbaijani: çox şey
Catalan: molt (ca)
Chickasaw: lawa
Chinese:
Cantonese: ^{(please verify)} 好多 (hou² do¹)
Czech: hodně (cs), mnoho (cs)
Dutch: veel (nl)
Esperanto: multa (eo),multe da
Finnish: paljon (fi)
German: vieles (de) n
Hungarian: sok minden, sok (hu)
Ingrian: paljo
Irish: a lán
Latin: multi
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: väl
Portuguese: bastante (pt), muito (pt)
Romanian: mult (ro)
Russian: мно́гое (ru) (mnógoje)
Spanish: mucho (es), asaz (es), bastante (es)
Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto)

Adverb

a lot (not comparable)

(informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.
Thanks a lot for listening to me.

It's a lot harder than it looks.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
  Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
(informal) Often; frequently.
I go swimming a lot.

Synonyms

loads, tons, immensely, numerous

Hypernyms

several

Related terms

Translations

very much

Albanian: shumë (sq)
Arabic: كَثِيرًا (kaṯīran)
Egyptian Arabic: قوي

Gulf Arabic: وايد
Armenian: շատ (hy) (šat)
Belarusian: шмат (be) (šmat), мно́га (mnóha)
Catalan: molt (ca)
Cebuano: kaayu
Chickasaw: lawa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 許多／许多 (zh) (xǔduō), 多 (zh) (duō)
Czech: velmi mnoho, moc (cs)
Danish: meget (da)
Dutch: veel (nl)
Esperanto: multe (eo)
Finnish: paljon (fi), hyvin paljon
French: beaucoup (fr)
Gallo: brav'ment
German: viel (de)
Greek:
Ancient: σφόδρα (sphódra)
Haitian Creole: anpil
Hebrew: הרבה (he) (harbe)
Hindi: बहुत सारा (bahut sārā)
Hungarian: nagyon (hu), (with comparative degree) sokkal (hu), jóval (hu), sokkalta (hu)
Ingrian: paljo, koormittee, äijä
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: molto (it)
Japanese: 沢山の (ja) (たくさんの, takusan no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ooi)
Khmer: ច្រើន (km) (craən)
Korean: 많은 (ko) (maneun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زۆر (ckb) (zor)
Lao: ຫລາຍ (lāi)
Latin: multō (la), multum (la), tot (la) m or m pl or f or f pl or n or n pl
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: мно́гу (mk) (mnógu)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Neapolitan: assaje m
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: mange (no)
Ojibwe: naaniibowa
Old French: molt, mult, mout
Persian: زیاد (fa) (ziyâd), خیلی زیاد (xeyli ziyâd)
Polish: mnóstwo (pl), wiele (pl), dużo (pl)
Portuguese: um monte, muito (pt), muita (pt)
Russian: мно́го (ru) (mnógo)
Scottish Gaelic: mòran
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Shor: кӧп (köp)
Slovak: mnoho
Southern Thai: จังหู้
Spanish: mucho (es), un montón (es) (colloquial), una barbaridad (colloquial), cosa mala (colloquial)
Swahili: mengi (sw)
Swedish: mycket (sv), en hel del (sv)
Thai: มาก (th) (mâak)
Tocharian B: māka
Turkish: çok (tr), bir sürü (tr), bir ton
Ukrainian: бага́то (uk) (baháto)
Vietnamese: nhiều (vi), lắm (vi)
Volapük: mödo (vo)
Welsh: llawer
Wolof: lool (wo)
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

often

Arabic: كَثِيرًا (kaṯīran)
Armenian: հաճախ (hy) (hačax)
Catalan: sovint (ca), freqüentment (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 常常 (zh) (chángcháng), 經常／经常 (zh) (jīngcháng), 時常／时常 (zh) (shícháng)
Czech: často (cs)
Dutch: vaak (nl), veel (nl)
Esperanto: ofte (eo)
Finnish: usein (fi)
French: souvent (fr)
German: oft (de)
Hungarian: gyakran (hu), sokat (hu), sokszor (hu), gyakorta (hu)
Italian: spesso (it)
Japanese: よく (ja) (yoku), 度々 (ja) (たびたび, tabitabi), しばしば (ja) (shiba shiba)
Korean: 자주 (ko) (jaju)
Latin: saepe (la)
Macedonian: многупати (mnogupati), често (često)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Neapolitan: assaje m
Norwegian: ofte (no)
Polish: często (pl)
Portuguese: muito (pt), bastante (pt)
Russian: ча́сто (ru) (částo)
Spanish: frecuentemente (es)
Swedish: ofta (sv)
Turkish: çok sık, çok (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} daug (lt)
Thai: ^{(please verify)} มาก (th) (maak)

References

“a lot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

ATOL, Alto, Toal, alto, alto-, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola