V.

Notion de quantité

A) Plus de / moins de

1) Plus de

More + nom dénombrable singulier + than

I need more money than you
More + nom dénombrable pluriel
I need more books

• Pour traduire un peu plus de :

A little more + nom indénombrable singulier
I need a little more money
A few more + nom dénombrable pluriel
I need a few more money

• Pour traduire beaucoup plus de :

Much more + nom indénombrable singulier
He earns much more money than me
Many more + nom dénombrable pluriel
He has many more friends than me

2) Moins de

Less + nom débrable singulier + than

He has less influence than his brother
Fewer + nom dénombrable pluriel + than
There are fewer candidates than last year

B) Autant de

1) Règle de base

As + much + nom indénombrable singulier + as

He spends as much time abroad his boss
As + many + nom dénombrable pluriel + as
We don't have as many employees as last year

2) Cette construction sert de base

Pour traduire 2 fois plus, 3 fois plus...
I have twice as much money as I used to
There are 3 times as many students in Lyons as in Montpellier.

3) Même principe

Pour 2 fois moins

The French drink half as much wine as they used to
I bought half as many books as I intended to

C) Tant de … que / si peu de … que

Tant de : so much + indénombrable singulier

 She ate so much chocolate that she was sick
so many + dénombrable pluriel
He has so many books that he doesn't know to put them

Si peu de : so little + indénombrable singulier

There is so little light that I cant read
so few + dénombrable pluriel
There were so few people that the meeting was cancelled

D) Trop de / trop peu de

Trop de : too much + indénombrable singulier

He spends too much time watching TV, and too little time reading
too many + dénombrable pluriel
She gives too many phonecalls and write too few letter

Trop peu de : too little + indénombrable singulier

too few + dénombrable pluriel

LES NUMERAUX

• Cette société possède plus de 300 points de vente dans toute la France
This company has more than three hundred retail outlets throughout France

• Il peut se rappeler des centaines de numéros

He can rember hundreds of phone numbers

• Ils ont vendu environ 4 millions d'écrans d'ordinateurs l'an dernier

They sold 4 million Ø computer monitors last year

• Grâce à l'informatique, plusieurs milliers de personnes peuvent travailler chez elle et

presque tous les foyers possèdent un ordinateur
Thanks to data processing several thousand Ø people can now work from home, and almost
every family has its own computer

LE GENITIF

II. Adjectifs et pronoms possessifs

A) Les objectifs possessifs

• My, your, his / her / its, our your their

B) Les pronoms possessifs

• Mine, yours, his / her, ours, yours, theirs

1) Règle de base

• Jamais précédé de l'article défini

• Ils sont invariables
• Ils ne sont jamais suivis de one / ones
2) Ils sont utilisés dans tes tournures idiomatiques

• One of my friends : a friend of mine

• One of her / his colleague : a colleague of her / his
• One of their / our / your cousins : a cousin of theirs / ours / yours

II. Le génitif (des noms)

A) Règle de formation

1) Avec un possesseur sigulier

• The car of John : John's car

• The car of my brother : my brother's car
• The car of the President : the President's car
• This decision by the court : the court's decision