JapaneseEdit
AdverbEdit
どう (romaji dō)
See alsoEdit
Japanese demonstratives
| ko- “this” (close to speaker) |
so- “that” (close to listener) |
a- “that over there” (far from both) |
do- “which” (indeterminate, question) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object | これ | それ | あれ | どれ |
| これら | それら | あれら | — | |
| Determiner | この | その | あの | どの |
| これらの | それらの | あれらの | — | |
| Kind | こんな | そんな | あんな | どんな |
| Place | ここ | そこ | あそこ* | どこ |
| Direction | こちら | そちら | あちら | どちら |
| こっち | そっち | あっち | どっち | |
| Human | こいつ | そいつ | あいつ | どいつ |
| Manner | こう | そう | ああ** | どう |
| * irregular ** regular (long vowel) |
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Usage notesEdit
- The hiragana spelling (どう) is preferred to the kanji spelling (如何), which is rarely used.
SynonymsEdit
- いかが (ikaga)
Derived termsEdit
InterjectionEdit
どう (romaji dō)
- Casual greeting: Howdy? What's new? What's up?
- どう？まあまあ
- dō?māmā
- Howdy? So-so.
- どう？まあまあ
- Casual question: It works? Is it OK?
- どう？いいんじゃない
- dō? iinjanai
- It works? Seems OK.
- どう？いいんじゃない
- Call out to horses or cows to control/stop them: ho! hoy!
NounEdit
どう (romaji dō)
- 胴: the large intestine; the body
- 銅: copper, brass, bronze cuprum
- 堂: hall; government office
- 動: move, happen; movement, action
- 僮: page, boy servant
- 働: labor; work
PrefixEdit
どう (romaji dō-)
SuffixEdit
どう (romaji -dō)