how much

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Determiner edit

how much

(interrogative) What amount or quantity (of something stated or implied).
How much (cheese) is left in the fridge?

How much of a problem will that cause the government?
(specifically, when referring to the cost of an item) What amount of money.
How much do you want for it?

How much is it?

Usage notes edit

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

Translations edit

what quantity

Abkhaz: заҟа (zaqʼa)
Afrikaans: hoeveel (af)
Albanian: sa (sq)
Arabic: كَمْ (ar) (kam)
Egyptian Arabic: كام (kām), قد إيه (ʔaddē)

Iraqi Arabic: شگد (šgadd)

Moroccan Arabic: شحال (šḥāl)

North Levantine Arabic: قديش (ʔaddēš), قدي (ʔaddē) (Lebanon)

South Levantine Arabic: قديش (ʔaddēš)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כמא (kmā, kmo)

Syriac: ܟܡܐ (kmā, kmo)
Armenian: որքան (hy) (orkʻan), ինչքան (hy) (inčʻkʻan)
Aromanian: cãt m
Asturian: cuántu (ast)
Azerbaijani: neçə (az), nə qədər
Bashkir: күпме (küpme)
Belarusian: ко́лькі (be) (kólʹki)
Bengali: কত (bn) (kot)
Bikol Central: gurano (bcl)
Bulgarian: ко́лко (bg) (kólko)
Burmese: မည်ရွေ့မည်မျှ (my) (manyrwe.manyhmya.), ဘယ်နှ (my) (bhaihna.), ဘယ်လောက် (my) (bhailauk)
Carpathian Rusyn: кі́лько (kílʹko)
Catalan: quant (ca)
Chamicuro: netna
Chechen: мел (mel)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 幾多／几多 (yue) (gei² do¹)

Dungan: дуәшо (duəšo), җи (ži)

Mandarin: 多少 (zh) (duōshao), 幾／几 (zh) (jǐ) (below ten)

Wu: 多少 (¹tu-sau)
Chuvash: мӗн чухлӗ (mĕn č̬uhlĕ)
Czech: kolik (cs)
Dalmatian: cont m
Danish: hvor meget
Dutch: hoeveel (nl)
Esperanto: kiom (eo)
Estonian: kui palju
Finnish: paljonko (fi), kuinka paljon
French: combien (fr)
Friulian: cetant
Galician: canto (gl)
Georgian: რამდენი (ka) (ramdeni)
German: wie viel (de)
Greek: πόσος (el) m (pósos), πόση (el) f (pósi), πόσο (el) n (póso)
Ancient: πόσος (pósos), πόση f (pósē), πόσον n (póson)
Guaraní: mboy
Hebrew: כַּמָּה (he) (káma)
Hiligaynon: pila
Hindi: कितना (hi) (kitnā)
Hungarian: mennyi (hu)
Icelandic: hversu mikið
Ido: quanta (io)
Indonesian: berapa (id)
Ingush: мел (mel)
Irish: cé mhéad, cá mhéad
Italian: quanto (it) m, quanta (it) f
Japanese: 幾ら (ja) (いくら, ikura), いくら (ja) (ikura), 何ぼ (なんぼ, nanbo) (Kyoto dialect)
Kapampangan: pakananu
Kazakh: қанша (qanşa), неше (neşe)
Khmer: ប៉ុន្មាន (km) (ponmaan)
Korean: 얼마나 (ko) (eolmana), 얼마 (ko) (eolma)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: çend (ku)
Kyrgyz: канча (ky) (kanca), нече (ky) (nece)
Lao: ເທົ່າໃດ (thao dai), ຈັກ (chak), ປານໃດ (pān dai), ພຽງໃດ (phīang dai), ສັກທໍ່ໃດ (sak thǭ dai), ຮາວໃດ (hāo dai), ຮາວ (hāo)
Latgalian: kai
Latin: quantus (la)
Latvian: cik
Lithuanian: kiek
Macedonian: ко́лку (mk) (kólku)
Malay: berapa
Maltese: kemm (mt)
Mòcheno: biavle
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хэдэн (xeden)
Navajo: díkwíí?
Norman: combein (Jersey), caombian (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hvor mye

Nynorsk: kor mykje
Ojibwe: aaniin minik
Old East Slavic: колико (koliko)
Old English: hū miċel
Pannonian Rusyn: кельо (kelʹo)
Persian: چِقَدر (fa) (čeqadr), چَند (fa) (čand)
Polish: ile (pl)
Portuguese: quanto (pt)
Quechua: hayk'a (qu)
Romanian: cât (ro)
Romansch: quant, con, quànt, quaunt
Russian: ско́лько (ru) (skólʹko)
Sardinian: cantu
Scottish Gaelic: cia mheud
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: колѝко

Roman: kolìko (sh)
Sicilian: quantu (scn)
Slovak: koľko
Slovene: kóliko (sl)
Spanish: cuánto (es)
Swahili: kiasi gani
Swedish: hur mycket
Tagalog: gaano
Tajik: чӣ қадар (čī qadar)
Thai: เท่าไร (th) (tâo-rai), กี่ (th) (gìi)
Tibetan: ག་ཚོད (ga tshod)
Tok Pisin: hamas
Turkish: ne kadar (tr)
Turkmen: näçe, näden
Ukrainian: скі́льки (skílʹky)
Urdu: کِتْنا (kitnā)
Uyghur: قانچە (qanche)
Uzbek: qancha (uz)
Venetian: cuanto, cuant
Vietnamese: mấy (vi) (below ten), bao nhiêu (vi) (above ten)
Welsh: faint (cy) m
Wolof: ñaata (wo)
Yakut: хас (qas)
Yiddish: וויפֿל (vifl)
Yup'ik: qavcin
Zazaki: çenday