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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
trop de (invariable)
- excessive, (an excess of)
Il y en a trop.- There is too much of it — or — There are too many of them.
- (with singulars and uncountable nouns) too much
On est passé beaucoup trop de temps en compagnie de menteurs.- Too much time is spent in the company of liars.
- (with countable nouns) too many
Il a lis trop d’histoires effrayantes et ne sait plus s’endormir.- He read too many scary stories and can't sleep any more.
Usage notes
- As seen above, the preposition de and the complement it introduces can be replaced with the adverbial pronoun en to reference a previously mentioned substantive.