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No hay mucho tiempo ahora.

No hay mucho tiempo ahora.
There isn't much time now.
From Lesson 28:How much and how many (cuánto)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about No hay mucho tiempo ahora.

Why do we use mucho here instead of mucha or muchos?
Mucho means "much" or "a lot of". Just like the question words cuánto and cuánta (how much) from this lesson, mucho changes its ending to match the noun it describes. Since tiempo (time) is a masculine, singular word, we use the masculine, singular form: mucho.
I remember hay means "there is". Does no hay simply mean "there isn't"?
Exactly! Hay is a special word that means both "there is" and "there are". To make it negative, you simply put no right in front of it. So no hay means "there isn't" or "there aren't".
Doesn't the word tiempo also mean "weather"?
Yes, it does! Tiempo translates to both "time" and "weather" in Spanish. You have to rely on the context to know which one is meant. Since saying "there isn't much weather" doesn't make sense, it clearly means "time" here.
Can I put ahora at the beginning of the sentence instead?
You definitely can. Spanish is very flexible with time words like ahora (now). Saying Ahora no hay mucho tiempo is completely natural and means exactly the same thing.

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