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Spanish exclamations with "cuánto"
Look at these sentences with the exclamatory word ¡cuánto + verb!
¡Cuánto has crecido desde la última vez que te vi!How much you've grown since the last time I saw you!
Cuánto can be used in front of a verb to express surprise at how much someone is doing that action. In this specific use of cuánto, the other forms are not correct (cuánta, cuántos, cuántas).
It would be incorrect to say:
¡Cuántos sabes, papá!
How much you know, dad! / You know so much, dad!
¡Cuánta bailas!
How much you dance!/ You dance so much!
To see other expressions with exclamatives, see:
- Using Qué poco/s + verb/noun to express surprise about a small quantity or infrequency
- Forming Spanish exclamatory sentences with qué [noun] or qué [adjective]
- Using Cuánto + noun in exclamations about quantities in Spanish
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