más

/mas/

adverb #34 of 5,000 Core 1000

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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