how
See also: How
how - English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: hou, IPA: /haʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA: /hæɔ/
Adverb
how (not comparable)
- (interrogative) To what degree or extent.
- How often do you practice?
- The gauge indicated how hot the oven was.
- (interrogative) In what manner:
- By what means.
- How do you solve this puzzle?
- How else can we get this finished?
- She showed him how to do it.
- With overtones of why, for what reason.
- How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
- In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
- With what meaning or effect.
- How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
- By what title or what name.
- At what price, for what amount (of money).
- By what means.
- (interrogative) In what state or condition.
- How are you?
- How was your vacation?
- Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
- How very interesting!
- How wonderful it was to receive your invitation.
Usage notes
- See usage notes on else (adverb).
- How good is it? means "To what extent is it good?", whereas How is it good? means "In what manner is it good?". Likewise, I know how good it is means "I know the extent to which it is good", whereas I know how it is good means "I know the manner in which it is good".
Derived terms
- and how
- any old how
- ask how high when someone says jump
- die how one lived
- die just how one lived
- don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
- don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
- get it how one gets it
- get it how one lives
- get it how one lives it
- how-d'ye-do
- how-to
- how-to-vote card
- how about
- how about no
- how about that
- how are things
- how are you
- how are you doing
- how are you getting along
- how are you going
- how bist
- how came you so
- how can you sleep at night
- how come
- how dare you
- how did he die
- how did it go
- how do
- how do I get to
- how do I get to the airport
- how do I get to the bus station
- how do I get to the train station
- how do ye do
- how do you do
- how do you like
- how do you like that
- how do you like them apples
- how do you mean
- how do you pronounce this word
- how do you say … in English
- how do you spell this word
- how embarrassment
- how far
- how goes it
- how goes the battle
- how goes the war
- how long
- how long is a piece of string
- how many
- how many languages do you speak
- how many siblings do you have
- how manyth
- how much
- how much does it cost
- how much do I owe you
- how much do you charge
- how much is it
- how no
- how now
- how old are you
- how say you
- how should I know
- how so
- how the mighty have fallen
- how the other half lives
- how the sausage gets made
- how the turntables
- how the wind is blowing
- how to
- how very dare you
- know-how
- know how many beans make five
- know how to pick 'em
- know how to walk before one can run
- mind how you go
- no matter how one slices it
- see how the land lies
- silly-how
- snow-how
- teach grandma how to suck eggs
- that's how the cookie crumbles
Translations
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Conjunction
how
- The manner or way in which.
- I remember how I solved this puzzle.
- In any way in which; in whatever way; however.
- People should be free to live how they want.
- That, the fact that.
- She told me how her father was a doctor.
Translations
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Noun
- The means by which something is accomplished.
- I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
Alternative forms
Noun
how (plural hows)
Alternative forms
Interjection
how
- A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.
Anagrams
how - Abau
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hou/
Noun
how
how - Alabama
Adverb
how
Synonyms
how - Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɔw/, [ow]
Adverb
how
how - Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /huː/, /wuː/
Adverb
how
Descendants
Conjunction
how
Descendants
Noun
how
- Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)
how - Yola
Adverb
how
- Alternative form of fowe