# πόσος/posos This word is used when the writer or speaker wants someone to pay attention to how much there is of something or what something is like. It is a correlative pronoun. * This word means how much, how great, or how many. * It can be used to ask a question about the number of people or things, or about the amount of something or an idea. * It can be used instead of a specific number or amount when the speaker wants to speak about it in a general way. * It can be used to emphasize how many, how much, or how great something is when the speaker thinks that the number or amount is very great.