很 hěn very; quite(also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) Example sentences 我今天很累。 wǒ jīntiān hěn lèi. I'm so tired today 他有很多法国朋友。 tā yǒu hěnduō fǎguó péngyou. He has a lot of French friends