Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?
Source: tatoeba (22111)
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Note: Use for countable nouns.
Fewer
//ˈfjuː.ɚ//
Synonyms for "fewer" (2 found)
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2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
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3 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλάσσων det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Arabic
1 entries- أَقَلّ det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- daha az det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Catalan
1 entries- menys det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 少 det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
- 更少 det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
- 較少 /较少 det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Danish
1 entries- færre det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Dutch
1 entries- minder det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Finnish
2 entries- harvempi det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
- vähemmän det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
French
1 entries- moins (de) det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
German
1 entries- weniger det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍆𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌰 det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Hebrew
1 entries- פחות det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Hungarian
1 entries- kevesebb det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Irish
1 entries- lú det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Italian
1 entries- meno det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Latin
1 entries- paucior det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Middle English
2 entries- fewere det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
- les det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Māori
1 entries- iti iho det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Norwegian
1 entries- færre det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Polish
1 entries- mniej det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Portuguese
1 entries- menos det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Russian
1 entries- ме́ньше det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Spanish
1 entries- menos det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Swedish
1 entries- färre det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ме́ньше det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Welsh
1 entries- llai det (comparative of few; a smaller number)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
It's true that there are fewer children due to the falling birthrate, and there are fewer children in the school, but that is all to the good.
Source: tatoeba (40910)
If there weren't so many taxis, there would be fewer traffic accidents.
Source: tatoeba (40955)
Pretty soon there were more of them on the road and fewer carriages pulled by horses.
Source: tatoeba (50804)
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