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la plupart des

most of

determiner lah plu-PAR deh Less Common

Usage Note

La plupart des is a fixed quantifier phrase meaning 'most of'. It takes a plural verb: la plupart des gens pensent que… ('most people think that…'). When used alone without a noun, it is simply la plupart — 'most of them'. The seed POS 'adjective' has been refined to 'determiner' as it quantifies a noun phrase.

Examples

"La plupart des élèves ont réussi."

Natural Translation

Most of the students passed.

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