viel

• IPA^(key): /vil/

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• Hyphenation: viel
• Rhymes: -il
• Homophone: Viel

viel

1. singular past indicative of vallen

• veil
• vlei

• viel’ (poetic)

Apocopic form of vielä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯l/, [ˈʋie̞̯l]
• Rhymes: -iel
• Syllabification^(key): viel
• Hyphenation^(key): viel

viel (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. (Southern Finland) alternative form of vielä
   • 2013, Henri Pulkkinen, Mikko Kuoppala, Tommi Langen, “Lyricat”, in Ukraina, performed by Ruger Hauer:

     Aspartaamit natriumglutamaatit liian laimeita, / Oon nähny viruksii joita ei viel ole, / Puoliks mies puoliks home

     Aspartames and monosodium glutamates are too mild, / I've seen viruses that do not yet exist / half man, half mold

• Viel (for the pronoun)

From Middle High German vile, from Old High German filu (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-. 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.
• See also the pronoun mehr (“more”).

viel (comparative mehr, superlative am meisten)

1. much, many

   Er hat viel Geld verloren. ― He lost a lot of money.

• 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.

• allzuviel
• soviel
• wieviel

• manch

• “viel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “viel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Inherited from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi͡ɛʎ/

viel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vielle)

1. old

• juene (“young”)
• novel (“new”)

viel oblique singular, 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, vieil
  • French: vieux
• Walloon: vî

From Middle High German vile, from Old High German filu (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-. More at English fele.

Compare German viel, Dutch veel.

viel (comparative meh, superlative menscht)

1. much, a lot of