Mucho and poco
mucho - a lot
poco - a little
Eva canta mucho. Yo canto poco. (Eva sings a lot. I sing a little.)
After a verb, as above, mucho and poco are adverbs. Before a noun, they are determiners. In that case they mean many/a lot of or few/not many (for countable nouns) or much/a lot of or little (for uncountable nouns) respectively, and they need to match the noun's gender and number.
Hay muchas ventanas en mi sala. (There are many windows in my living room.)
Hay pocos supermercados en Midtown. (There are few/not many supermarkets in Midtown.)
Words that express quantity, like mucho and poco, are called quantifiers. Quantifiers can belong to different word classes: mucho and poco, for example, can be adverbs or determiners.
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