viel

• IPA^(key): /vil/

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• Rhymes: -il

viel

1. singular past indicative of vallen

• veil
• vlei

• Viel (for the pronoun)

From Old High German filu (“many”), from Proto-Germanic *felu. More at fele.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophone: fiel

viel

1. much, a lot

   Es ist viel passiert.

   Much has happened.

• Compare the similar, but semantically different pronoun vieles.

viel (comparative mehr, superlative am meisten)

1. much, many

   Er hat viel Geld verloren.

   He lost a lot of money.

   For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:viel.

• In the singular, the adjective is usually left unchanged when it is not preceded by an article or determiner (see example sentence above). Otherwise it is declined like a normal adjective: das viele Geld.
• In the plural, the adjective is usually declined even without a preceding article or determiner: viele Kinder. However, it may be left unchanged when modified by a preceding adverb, e.g. in the combinations wie viel (“how many”) and so viel (“so many”): wie viel Kinder or wie viele Kinder.
• The comparative form mehr is invariable and never declined; it cannot be preceded by any article or determiner (note however mehrere, mehreres, and obsolete mehre, mehres). The superlative meist- is declined like a normal adjective.

viel (comparative mehr, superlative am meisten)

1. much, a lot

   Wir haben viel gelacht.

   We laughed a lot.

• soviel
• wieviel

• manch

From Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus.

• IPA^(key): /vieʎ/

viel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vielle)

1. old

• juene (“young”)
• novel (“new”)

viel m (oblique plural vieus or viex or viels, nominative singular vieus or viex or viels, nominative plural viel)

1. old person

• juene (“young person”)

• ancien

• Middle French: vieulx
  • French: vieux
• Walloon: vî

Compare German viel, Dutch veel.

viel (comparative meh, superlative menscht)

1. much, a lot of