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Mi abuelo no tiene mucho estrés.

Mi abuelo no tiene mucho estrés.
My grandfather does not have a lot of stress.
From Lesson 50:Very vs. a lot (muy, mucho)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Mi abuelo no tiene mucho estrés.

Why do we use mucho instead of muy here?
Muy translates to 'very' and is used with adjectives (describing words). Mucho translates to 'a lot of' or 'much' and is used with nouns (things you can have, feel, or count). Because estrés (stress) is a noun, we must use mucho.
Why is it mucho and not mucha?
The word mucho changes its ending to match the gender of the noun it belongs to. Estrés is a masculine noun in Spanish, so we use the masculine form mucho. If he had a lot of patience (paciencia, which is feminine), it would be mucha paciencia.
Why doesn't the Spanish sentence use a helper word like 'does' for the negative?
In English, we need helper words like 'do' or 'does' to make a sentence negative (does not have). Spanish is much simpler! To make a sentence negative, you just put no directly in front of the verb. So, 'does not have' is simply no tiene.
In English we say someone 'is stressed'. Why does this sentence use tiene (has)?
While you can use an adjective to say someone is stressed (está estresado), Spanish very commonly uses the verb tener (to have) to talk about feelings and states of being. Instead of saying he is stressed, it is very natural in Spanish to say he has stress (tiene estrés).

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