Word
Tengo un montón de trabajo.
Meaning
I have a ton of work.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Tengo un montón de trabajo.
de
from / of
tener
to have
el trabajo
the work
el montón
the pile; the un montón de = a lot of
Questions & Answers about Tengo un montón de trabajo.
Is un montón de a quantity word like bastante or demasiado?
Why do we need de here when we don't use it with words like bastante?
Because un montón is a noun, it needs the preposition de (of) to connect it to the thing you are measuring, literally translating to a pile of work. Words like bastante (enough/quite a bit) act directly as adjectives describing the noun, so they do not need de: bastante trabajo.
If I want to say I have a ton of a feminine word, like tarea (homework), does the phrase change to feminine?