I'm trying to say "blessed with many talents", but I am not sure if I am using
たくさん correctly here. I am thinking that 「たくさんの才能に恵まれている」 is more grammatically
correct but I can't think why. Maybe because たくさん is both an adjective and an
adverb, and thus whilst 「たくさん飲んだ」(drank a lot) makes sense, 「たくさん恵まれている」(be
blessed a lot) doesn't sound so natural.
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Does 才能にたくさん恵まれている sound correct?
I haven't seen that exact phrase, but I have seen 「 **多くの** 才能に恵まれている」, which
is basically the same thing, just a different word for "Many". See here for a
discussion on 「たくさん」vs「多い」: [Usage of たくさん vs.
多い](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/864/usage-
of-%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8F%E3%81%95%E3%82%93-vs-%E5%A4%9A%E3%81%84). They discuss
the adverb-adjective issue that you mentioned.
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I agree with Halfway Dillitante. 多くの才能に恵まれている sounds right. You can also say
才能にとても恵まれている or たくさんの才能に恵まれている.

Yes, I know why you used たくさん. It can be used as an adjective.

e.g.)

  * お金をたくさんあげた
  * 雨がたくさん降った

However, たくさん恵む somehow sounds unnatural. It's grammatically correct. But
still strange. I don't know why. Maybe it's a collocation.
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Yes, 才能にたくさん恵まれている is natural. Dictionaries say たくさん is a na-adjective and
noun, and often used as an adverb.

たくさんの才能に恵まれている and 才能にたくさん恵まれている are natural, but I think the latter is used
more often. For example, I feel 図書館にはたくさん本がある is more common than
図書館にはたくさんの本がある.
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