adverbial N3 common casualpolitewritten
どんなに — (no matter) how much / however ~
どんなに
Builds on 〜ても
Meaning
- how (much) ~ — intensifies a degree in an exclamation or an embedded question
Key sentence
合格できて、どんなに嬉しかったか分からない。
You can't imagine how happy I was to pass.
Formation
| Attaches to | Form | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Adverb before an adjective/verb, often closing with か / ことか | どんなに + [adj / verb] (+ か / ことか) | どんなに美しいことか |
Examples
彼がどんなに努力したか、誰も知らない。
No one knows how hard he worked.
この景色がどんなに美しいことか。
How beautiful this scenery is!
Easily confused with
See どんなに in real sentences
Jengo shows どんなに the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar.