quite a few

English

Determiner

quite a few

An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of.
I've watched quite a few basketball games in my time.

Translations

indefinite and somewhat large number

Bashkir: байтаҡ (baytaq), күп кенә (küp kenä)
Catalan: bastant (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 好幾 (zh), 好几 (zh) (hǎojǐ), 不少 (zh) (bùshǎo), 相當多, 相当多 (xiāngdāng duō)
Finnish: aika moni, melko moni
French: pas mal de (fr)
Greek: αρκετός (el) (arketós)
Italian: un bel po'
Japanese: 少なからぬ (sukunakaranu), かなりの (ja) (kanari no)

Macedonian: не баш малку (ne baš malku)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: en del
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: не та́к уж ма́ло (ne ták už málo), дово́льно мно́го (dovólʹno mnógo)
Scots: a guid pickle
Slovak: hodne, viacero, nemálo
Spanish: bastante (es)
Swedish: ganska många

Noun

quite a few

An indefinite and somewhat large number.
- 2016, Walter Laqueur, Worlds Ago: A Memoir of My Journeying Years
  About a third, perhaps more, were killed in the war; of the survivors quite a few were wounded, some severely.

Translations

large number

Chinese:
Mandarin: 好幾 (zh), 好几 (zh) (hǎojǐ), 不少 (zh) (bùshǎo), 相當多, 相当多 (xiāngdāng duō)

Finnish: aika moni, monet (fi) pl
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

Further reading

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