Degree
How strong or complete is something?
Significado
We can show how strong a quality is or how far an action has gone. This can mean a little, very much, enough, too much, or completely. Languages use separate words, endings, or context, and some have no special degree forms. Quantity counts or measures things, while Degree usually measures a quality, a state, or an action.
Como identificar
Look for a word or form that changes the strength of a description or shows how far an action reaches.
Na tua língua materna
Degree commonly uses words such as muito, pouco, and bem before an adjective or adverb. Demais often follows an adjective or verb and can mean too much or very much, while o suficiente expresses enough. Muito stays unchanged when it modifies an adjective or adverb, although it changes form when it measures a noun.
As malas estão muito pesadas.
Muito modifies pesadas and does not match the feminine plural subject.
O café está quente demais para beber agora.
Hoje dormi o suficiente.
Na tua língua de aprendizagem
English uses words such as very, too, almost, and completely to show degree. Very and too usually come before an adjective or adverb, while enough follows it. Very strengthens a description, but too says something goes beyond what is wanted or useful.
This bag is very heavy.
Very strengthens heavy without saying that the weight is a problem.
The soup is too hot to eat.
Too means the heat is beyond a useful limit.
Is the room warm enough?
Enough follows the adjective and asks whether the warmth is sufficient.
Learners whose language puts the word for enough before an adjective may use that order in English. Learners whose language uses one word for both a high degree and an unwanted excess may confuse very and too.