Adverb lavorare molto / tanto molto / tanto lontano molto / tanto di ffi cile lavorare troppo troppo lontano troppo di ffi cile lavorare poco poco lontano poco di ffi cile Adjective molt o  (tant o ) / tropp o / poc o  lavor o  [ms] molt a  (tant a ) / tropp a / poc a  acqu a  [fs] molt i  (tant i ) / tropp i / poch i  eserciz i  [mp] molt e  (tant e ) / tropp e / poch e  letter e  [fp] to work a lot very far very di ffi cult to work too much too far too di ffi cult to work little/not to work much not very far not very di ffi cult a lot of/too much/not much work a lot of/too much/not much water many/too many/not many exercises many/too many/not many letters Mio padre lavora  troppo .  [adverb] Questa musica è  molto  bella.  [adverb] Luisa dorme  poco .  [adverb] Dormi  troppo poco .  [adverbs] Abbiamo  molto  tempo.  [adjective] Luisa mangia  poca  pasta.  [adjective] Ho  molti  amici.  [adjective] ‘Perché fai questo?’ ‘Ci sono  molte ragioni.’  [adjective] My father works too much. This music is very beautiful. Luisa sleeps little/doesn’t sleep much. You sleep too little/don’t sleep enough. We have a lot of time. Luisa eats little pasta/doesn’t eat a lot of pasta. I have a lot of friends. ‘Why are you doing this?’ ‘There are many reasons.’ 5 Having a lot of words ending in  -mente  can often sound heavy. To avoid this, Italian sometimes uses adverbial phrases instead of single words. These do the same job as one-word adverbs, and indeed they do usually correspond to one-word English adverbs in ‘-ly’. These adverbial expressions are most often constructed with  con  (with), sometimes with  senza  (without), followed by a noun: Adverbial expressions con di ffi coltà con eleganza con lentezza con rapidità con semplicità with di ffi culty elegantly slowly rapidly/quickly simply 48 Unit 6