QUANTIFIERS

Most examples are taken from E. Newberry's text on Art Nouveau.

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	Quantifieur simple Le quantifieur porte sur un élément / des éléments vu(s) pour la première fois. Placez le curseur sur les mots en caractères gras pour la traduction	Quantifieur + OF + DET. : le quantifieur porte sur un ensemble d'éléments déjà déterminé. Placez le curseur sur les mots en caractères gras pour la traduction	Compatible avec dénombra- bles	Compatible avec: indénom- brables
SOME	I have bought some furniture.	The glass maker Emile Gallé also designed some of the most opulent Art Nouveau furniture.	x	x
MOST	Most architects are also businessmen	Those cities still have Art Nouveau buildings but most of the architects are now long forgotten.	x	x
		The Belgian architect Victor Horta was the first to design buildings in the Art Nouveau style. Most of his commissions were unique.
MANY	Antonio Gaudi's work attracted the attention of Eusebio de Guell, a wealthy industrialist, for whom he carried out many important commissions.	Many of the Art Nouveau buildings were shops, cafés and restaurants designed by obscure architects working on low budgets.	x
SEVERAL	Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed several houses near Glasgow.	Several of his houses were destroyed in the sixties.	x
EACH	Horta's furniture was unique for each client...	Each of Horta's clients were important to him.	x
NONE (pronom)	...and none was made to be reproduced commercially.	None of his works was to be reproduced.	x

FEW / LITTLE / BOTH / EITHER / ALL / EVERY
Dénombrables	Indénombrables
Few items were reproduced. (= not many) (Few of them...) Only a few items were considered to be masterpieces. (a few of them...) I looked at both items (together). (both of them) I looked at all items (together). (all of them)	He made relatively little profit. (= not much) He only made a little profit. I looked at either item (separately). (either of them) I looked at every item (separately) (every one of them).