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viel (adj./adv., indef. pron.)
   a lot (of), much
Comparison: viel, mehr, am meisten (much, more, most)

Er arbeitet zu viel.
He’s working too much.
Viel Lärm um nichts
Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare)
Was zu viel ist, ist zu viel.
There’s a limit to everything.
("What’s too much, is too much.")

Related:
viele many
sehr viel Geld a great deal of money
wie viel? how much?
vielerlei various, all sorts of, many kinds of; all sorts of things

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