connective N3 common casualpolitewritten

どんなに〜ても — no matter how

どんなに〜ても ・ どんなにても
Builds on て形

Meaning

Key sentence

No matter how tired I am, I write in my diary every day.

Formation

Attaches toFormExample
どんなに + Verb / adjective (て-form + も) どんなに + V-ても / A-くても どんなに高たかくても / どんなに頼たのんでも

Examples

No matter how much I practice, I just don't get any better.
However hard it gets, I won't give up until the end.

Easily confused with

いくら〜ても Near-synonyms. どんなに stresses degree or manner ('however [much/hard]'), while いくら stresses quantity or repeated effort ('however much you ~'). たとえ〜ても どんなに〜ても concedes any degree of a real situation ('no matter how ~'). たとえ〜ても concedes a hypothetical one ('even if ~ were to happen').

See どんなに〜ても in real sentences

Jengo shows どんなに〜ても the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.

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Sources Compiled from published Japanese grammar references.

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