すくなくない
Meanings
- quite a few
- quite a lot
- many
- not a few
- not a little
About this pattern
Explanation
すくなくない is the negation of 少なくない (not few), used to express that the quantity is more than just a few. It conveys a stronger sense of abundance or a noticeable number of items, people, or occurrences. It is commonly used to assert that there are more than a small amount in a given context. It can apply to tangible things (books, spots, fish) and to abstract counts (stories, acquaintances), and is often used when the speaker wants to reassure or emphasize the presence of enough quantity.
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Example sentences
There are quite a few friends in this class.
There are quite a few tourist spots in Japan.
There aren’t few fish in this river; there are many.
There were quite a few acquaintances at yesterday's party.
His stories contain quite a few jokes.
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