más
/mas/
Translation
more, most
Examples
.
I need more time to finish the report.
.
It is harder than it looks.
¿ ?
Do you want more coffee?
Más (with accent) means "more" and is used in comparisons and to intensify. It must not be confused with mas (without accent), which is a literary conjunction synonymous with pero (but). In everyday speech and writing, the unaccented form is virtually never used - always write más for "more."
Más combines with de before numbers ("más de cien personas" - more than a hundred people) and with que in comparisons between two terms ("más alto que yo" - taller than me). Using más... que with numerals is a common error: "más de diez" is correct, not "más que diez."
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