There are few tigers left/remaining.

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There are few tigers left/remaining. Do both words work as well?

Would 'Few tigers remain/are left' be better as it is simpler?

Thank you in advance.
 
There are few tigers left/remaining. Do both words work as well? Yes.

Would 'Few tigers remain/are left' be better as it is simpler? It's not better IMO, but it's equally correct.
Thank you in advance.
Bhai.
 
:up: But I think either 'not many' or 'very few' would sound more natural. (There is also a poetic inversion that you may come across: 'Few are the tigers that are left'. This sort of inversion is almost never used colloquially, except in idioms like 'Many's the time I've...')

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