English
Etymology
From Old English hū maniġ.
Pronunciation
Determiner
how many
- (This entry is a translation hub.)
How many times have I told you not to?
How many keys we have already lost!
I told him how many days the principal said he skipped school.
She's invited zillion people to dinner. — She’s invited how many?
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
what number
- Afrikaans: hoeveel (af)
- Aklanon: pila
- Albanian: sa (sq)
- American Sign Language: S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-S@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp 5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp-5@InsideChesthigh-PalmUp
- Arabic: كَم (ar) (kam)
- South Levantine Arabic: كم (kam), أكم (ʔakam), أكم من (ʔakam min)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: כמא (kmā, kmo)
- Syriac: ܟܡܐ (kmā, kmo)
- Armenian: քանի (hy) (kʻani)
- Asturian: cuántos (ast) m pl, cuántas (ast) f pl
- Azerbaijani: neçə (az)
- Bashkir: нисә (nisə), күпме (küpme)
- Basque: zenbat
- Belarusian: ко́лькі (be) (kólʹki)
- Bhojpuri: केतना (kētᵊnā)
- 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 / 几多 (yue) (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)
- Faroese: hvussu nógv
- Finnish: kuinka monta, montako
- French: combien (fr)
- Galician: cantos m pl, cantas f pl
- Georgian: რამდენი (ka) (ramdeni)
- German: wie viele (de)
- 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)
- Ingrian: monta, paljo
- 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 (ja) (ikutsu), 何 (ja) (なん, nan) (+ qualifier), 幾- (iku-)
- Javanese: pira (jv)
- Jeju: 멧 (met)
- Kapampangan: pilan
- Kazakh: қанша (qanşa)
- Khmer: ប៉ុន្មាន (km) (ponmaan)
- Korean: 몇 (ko) (myeot), 얼마 (ko) (eolma), 얼마나 (ko) (eolmana)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چەن (çen)
- Northern Kurdish: çend (ku)
- Kyrgyz: канча (ky) (kanca)
- Lao: ຈັກ (chak)
- Latin: quot
- Latvian: cik
- Lithuanian: kiek
- Macedonian: колку (mk) (kolku)
- Malay: berapa (ms)
- Maltese: kemm (mt)
- Maori: e hia (items), tokohia (people)
- Mòcheno: biavle
- Mongolian: хэд (mn) (xed), хэдэн (xeden)
- Nahuatl: kexki
- Nanai: хадо (hado)
- Navajo: díkwíí
- Norman: combein (Jersey), caombian (Guernsey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvor mange
- Nynorsk: kor 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)
- Scottish Gaelic: cia mheud, cò mheud
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: колико
- Roman: koliko (sh)
- Sidamo: meʼe
- Slovak: koľko
- Slovene: kóliko (sl)
- Somali: meeqa
- Southern Altai: канча (kanča)
- Spanish: cuántos (es) m, cuántas f
- Swahili: -ngapi
- Swedish: hur många
- Tagalog: ilan, ilang beses
- Tajik: чанд (tg) (čand)
- Tamil: எத்தனை (ta) (ettaṉai)
- 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),necha (uz)
- Vietnamese: mấy (vi) (below ten), bao nhiêu (vi) (above ten)
- Volapük: liomödotik (vo)
- Welsh: faint (cy) m, sawl
- Wolof: ñaata (wo)
- Yakut: хас (qas)
- Yiddish: וויפֿל (vifl)
- Yoruba: mélòó
- Yup'ik: qavcin
- Zhuang: geij, geijlai
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Pronoun
how many
- 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.
- what number
How many of you have full-time jobs?
I've invited three hundred people to my wedding. — You've invited how many?
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.
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References
- “how many”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.