how many

how many

English

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Determiner

how many

1. (This entry is a translation hub.)

   How many times have I told you not to slam the door?

   How many keys we have lost!

   I told him how many days the principal said he skipped school.

Usage notes

• Used with countable nouns only. The form used with uncountable nouns is how much.

Translations

what number

Afrikaans: hoeveel (af) Aklanon: pila American Sign Language: S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp 5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp Arabic: كَم‎ (ar) (kam) Aramaic: Hebrew: כמא‎ (kmā, kmo) Syriac: ܟܡܐ‎ (kmā, kmo) Armenian: քանի (hy) (kʿani) Asturian: cuántos (ast) m pl, cuántas (ast) f pl Azerbaijani: neçə (az) Bashkir: нисә (nisä), күпме (küpme) Belarusian: ко́лькі (be) (kólʹki) Bikol Central: pira (bcl) Bulgarian: ко́лко (bg) (kólko) Burmese: ဘယ်လောက် (my) (bhailauk) Catalan: quants (ca) m pl, quantes (ca) f pl Cheyenne: tónesto Chinese: Cantonese: 幾, 几 (gei2), 幾多 (yue), 几多 (gei2 do1) Dungan: дуәшо (duəšo), җи (ži) Mandarin: 多少 (zh) (duōshǎo), 幾／几 (zh) (jǐ) (below ten), 幾個／几个 (zh) (jǐgè) (below ten; using "gè" measure word) Czech: kolik (cs) Dakota: tonakeca he? Danish: hvor mange Dutch: hoeveel (nl) Esperanto: kiom (eo) Estonian: kui mitu Evenki: ады (adi) Finnish: kuinka monta, montako French: combien (fr) Galician: cantos m pl, cantas f pl Georgian: რამდენი (ka) (ramdeni) German: wie viele Greek: πόσοι (el) (pósoi) Ancient: πόσοι (pósoi) Guaraní: mboy Hebrew: כַּמָּה‎ (he) (káma) Hindi: कितने (kitne) Hungarian: hány (hu) Ido: quanta (io) Indonesian: berapa (id) Interlingua: quante Irish: cé mhéad, cá mhéad Italian: quanti (it) m pl, quante (it) f pl Japanese: 幾つ (ja) (いくつ, ikutsu), いくつ (ikutsu), 何 (ja) (なん, nan) (+ qualifier), 幾- (iku-) Javanese: pira (jv) Kazakh: қанша (kk) (qanşa) Khmer: ប៉ុន្មាន (km) (ponmaan) Korean: 얼마 (ko) (eolma), 얼마나 (ko) (eolmana), 몇 (ko) (myeot) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: چەن‎ (ku) (çen) Kyrgyz: канча (ky) (kança) Lao: ຈັກ (chak) Latin: quot Latvian: cik Lithuanian: kiek Macedonian: колку (mk) (kolku) Malay: berapa Maltese: kemm (mt) Maori: e hia (items), tokohia (people) Mongolian: хэд (mn) (xed), хэдэн (xeden) Mòcheno: biavle Nahuatl: kexki Nanai: хадо Navajo: díkwíí Norman: combein (Jersey), caombian (Guernsey) Norwegian: Bokmål: hvor mange Occitan: quants (oc), quantes (oc) Ojibwe: aaniin daswi Old English: hū fela Old Javanese: pira Oromo: meeqa Palauan: ngtelang Pashto: څو‎ (ps) (tsu) Persian: چند‎ (fa) (čand), چند تا‎ (fa) (čand-tâ) Polish: ile (pl) pl Portuguese: quantos (pt) m, quantas (pt) f Quechua: hayk'a (qu) Romanian: câți m pl, câte (ro) f pl Russian: ско́лько (ru) (skólʹko) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: колико Roman: koliko (sh) Sidamo: meʼe Slovak: koľko Slovene: kóliko (sl) Somali: meeqa Spanish: cuántos (es) m, cuántas f Swahili: -ngapi Swedish: hur många Tagalog: ilan Tajik: чанд (tg) (čand) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tetum: hira Thai: เท่าไร (th) (tâo-rai), กี่ (th) (gìi) Tibetan: ག་ཚོད (ga tshod) Tok Pisin: hamas Turkish: kaç (tr) Turkmen: näçe Ukrainian: скі́льки (skílʹky), кі́лько (kílʹko) (dialectal) Urdu: کِتنے‎ (kitne) Uyghur: نەچچە‎ (nechche), قانچىلىك‎ (qanchilik), قانچە‎ (qanche) Uzbek: qancha (uz) Vietnamese: mấy (vi) (below ten), bao nhiêu (vi) (above ten) Volapük: liomödotik (vo) Welsh: faint (cy) m, sawl Wolof: ñaata (wo) Yakut: хас (xas) Yiddish: וויפֿל‎ (vifl) Yoruba: mélòó Yup'ik: qavcin Zhuang: geij, geijlai

Pronoun

how many

1. unspecified number

   We've lost quite a few; I don't know exactly how many.

   • 1800, George Fox, A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Exsperiences, and Labour of Love, in the work of the Ministry:

     And I saw how many were destroying the simplicity, and betraying the truth.

   • 2004, John P. Sutton, Thin White Lines, page 233:

     Biff then stated, “Take how many you want, they're $700 a piece."

   • 2012, Charlie Gardner, Rotten Timbers, →ISBN, page 143:

     I'll phone later and confirm how many I want.

   • 2016, L. James Dempsey, Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000:

     The sticks are now going around, and take how many you want.

2. what number

   How many of you have full-time jobs?

   How many have we lost to disease?

   • 2000, Glen C. Cutlip, How to Overcome Death: The Final Victory, →ISBN, page 61:

     The message itself is neither difficult nor simple, but how many will realize this?

   • 2005, David B. Spangler, Math for Real Kids, →ISBN:

     You know how many are in one group and how many are in another group.

   • 2010, Michael A. Curtis, Notes from My Journey, →ISBN, page 39:

     How many will say I want to be a good example for my children?

   • 2011, Ian Angus & Simon Butler, Too Many People?, →ISBN:

     How many people Earth can support depends in part on how many will wear cotton and how many polyester; on how many will eat meat and how many bean sprouts; on how many will want parks and how many will want parking lots.

Translations

unspecified number

Finnish: montako, kuinka monta Hungarian: valahány (hu), akárhány (hu), ahány csak Welsh: faint (cy) m, sawl un m or f

what number

Aragonese: quanto Chechen: маса (masa) Finnish: kuinka monta, montako French: combien (fr) German: wieviel (de) Higaonon: pila Hungarian: hány (hu), (of people) hányan Ingush: масса (massa) Isnag: pixa Kyrgyz: канча (ky) (kança) Malay: berapa Mansaka: pila Maranao: pira Paiwan: pida Russian: сколько (ru) (skolʹko) Tagalog: ilan Tajik: чанд (tg) (čand) Tausug: pila Tetum: hira Turkish: kaç (tr) Tuvan: каш Welsh: faint (cy) m, sawl un m or f Yakut: хас (xas), төһө (töhö)

References

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