Grammatical class

Noun

tas

heap, pile

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Syllables

tas

Phonetics

ta

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

639

Freq. (movies)

829

Freq. (news)

6075

Sentences

Quel tas de stylos !

What a lot of pens!

A1

J'ai des tas d'amis.

I have plenty of friends.

A1

J'ai tout un tas d'idées.

I have a whole lot of ideas.

A1

J'ai des tas de théories.

I have plenty of theories.

A1

Il faut apprendre à compter et faire des tas de dictées.

One has to learn to calculate and do heaps of dictations.

A2

Ça m'est arrivé des tas de fois.

That's happened to me plenty of times.

A2

L'armée disposait de tas d'armes.

The army had plenty of weapons.

A2

C'est un tas de balivernes.

It's a bunch of nonsense.

B1

On fait des tas de comparaisons.

Comparisons aplenty are being made.

B1

Tom nous a raconté tout un tas de mensonges.

Tom told us a whole pack of lies.

B1

J'ai écrasé les tas de feuilles en les piétinant.

I crushed the piles of leaves by stomping on it.

B1

Quel tas de balivernes !

What utter nonsense.

B2