how many
how many pronoun: unspecified number.
Pronoun
how many
- unspecified number
- We've lost quite a few; I don't know exactly how many.
- And I saw how many were destroying the simplicity, and betraying the truth.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
- what number
- How many of you have full-time jobs?
- I've invited three hundred people to my wedding. — You've invited how many?
how many meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
how many in Hindi
- what number
- कितने kitne
how many in Tamil
- what number
- எத்தனை ettaṉai
- unspecified number
- எவ்வளவு evvaḷavu
how many in Marathi
- how many...?
- कितिं kitĩ
how many in Urdu
- what number
- کِتنے kitne
More languagesFewer languages
- how many in Bengali
- কটা koṭa, কয় koẏ, কত koto
- how many in Telugu
- ఎంత enta
- how many in Malayalam
- എത്ര etra
- how many in Kannada
- ಎಷ್ಟು eṣṭu
- how many in Odia
- କେତେ kete
- how many in Sanskrit
- कति káti
- how many in Pashto
- څو tsu
- how many in Tagalog
- ilan, ilang beses
- how many in Arabic
- كَم kam, كَمْ kam
- how many in Malay
- berapa
- how many in Indonesian
- berapa
- how many in Persian
- چند čand, چند تا čand-tâ
- how many in Thai
- เท่าไร tâo-rai, กี่ gìi
- how many in Vietnamese
- mấy, bao nhiêu
- how many in Myanmar
- ဘယ်လောက် bhailauk
Examples of how many in a sentence
- Biff then stated, “Take how many you want, they're $700 a piece."2004, John P. Sutton, Thin White Lines, page 233:
- I'll phone later and confirm how many I want.2012, Charlie Gardner, Rotten Timbers, →ISBN, page 143:
- The sticks are now going around, and take how many you want.2016, L. James Dempsey, Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000:
- The message itself is neither difficult nor simple, but how many will realize this?2000, Glen C. Cutlip, How to Overcome Death: The Final Victory, →ISBN, page 61:
Origin of how many
Inherited from Old English hū maniġ.
Words formed from how many
Questions about how many
- What does how many mean?
- How many means unspecified number.
- What is how many in Hindi?
- How many in Hindi is कितने (kitne). See How many meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use how many in a sentence?
- Biff then stated, “Take how many you want, they're $700 a piece."
- What part of speech is how many?
- How many is a pronoun.
Words near how many in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: how many (page history and authors); कितिं (Marathi) (page history and authors); কটা (Bengali) (page history and authors); എത്ര (Malayalam) (page history and authors); କେତେ (Odia) (page history and authors); कति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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