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Re: Perfective or Perfect?

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12:20
On 20/03/2008, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> It's "muchas gracias"; the adjective "mucho" changes to match the > gender and number of its referent. > > Pronounced /'mu.tSas 'gra.zjas/, where the /z/ is either [T] or [s] > depending on region, no diacritics. With an accent over the <I> the > pronunciation would become trisyllabic /gra'zi..as/. >
Oh! I'd thought "mucho" was an adverb. Though I probably should have noticed the lineage from "multus". Thank you. :-) Eugene