"Francoj multe ŝatas kafon."
Translation:French people like coffee a lot.
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There are some good answers already posted. I would explain it as follows.
Tre has to do with intensity and multe has to do with quantity. Whether you use tre or multe is a question of semantics and not grammar. In many cases - such as this one - you can use either.
- My appreciation of coffee is intense.
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My appreciation of coffee is gigantic.
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I really like coffee.
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I like coffee a lot.
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Mi tre ŝatas kafon.
- Mi multe ŝatas kafon.
There are some words where you must use one or the other (for semantic reasons.)
- Mi estas tre laca - I am really tired. (Not "I am tired in a large amount")
- Mi multe promenis - I walked a lot (Not "I very walked.")
I thought tre was only used for adjectives so I looked it up in vortaro.net...turns out you're right, you can say "Mi tre ŝatas kafon".
I also looked at multe to see if I could learn clearly the difference between the two...but I couldn't, vortaro is still not super accessible at my level of esperanto.
What I brought home is that you can use multe to indicate quantity, duration (of an action or a thing); "Mi ne dormis multe hieraŭ". And tre in a more general way indicates superlatives, intensity. Also, you can say "tre multe" :D
This diferent is right, the verb "ŝati" the diferent between "multe" and "tre", but with "kuri" to run it becomes clear.
"Li multe kuri." He runs a lot, like everyday or for a long time, runs many times.
"Li tre kuri." He runs a lot, like his is fast, runs intensive.
With "ŝati" this diferences becomes the same, a big amount of likeness or a strong likeness is the same thing.
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I cannot give you a response based on grammar, but the same thing happens in Spanish. "Me gusta mucho el café" as opposed to "Me gusta muy el café." It seems like "to like" is a bit of a quantity, of which you can have an amount.
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I also would personally translate this as "tre sxatas", but given that we're on Duolingo and the English original says "a lot"... maaaybe it's understandable.
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Yes, try one of these - "French people like coffee a lot" or "French people like a lot of coffee". I can't explain except with examples. Different emphasis and slightly different meaning however.