how

名词 n. 副词 adv. 连词 conj. 感叹词 intj.
/haʊ/    /haʊ/|/hæɔ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies. dialectal
    — Fianlly, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
  2. The means by which something is accomplished.
    — I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
  3. In northern England, a low hill. dialectal
副词 adv.
  1. To what degree or extent. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How often do you practice?
  2. In what manner interrogative,not-comparable
    — Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
  3. In what manner:; By what means. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How do you solve this puzzle? –Sorry, I can't remember how.
  4. In what manner:; With overtones of why, for what reason. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
  5. In what manner:; In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How are you fixed for money?
  6. In what manner:; With what meaning or effect. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
  7. In what manner:; By what title or what name. interrogative,not-comparable
    — "How art thou called? Thy name make known; Thy father's name and family,—tell me thy father's and thine own."
  8. In what manner:; At what price, for what amount (of money). interrogative,not-comparable
    — Shal. How a score of ewes now? Sil. Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds.
  9. In what state or condition. interrogative,not-comparable
    — How are you?
  10. In the manner in which. not-comparable
    — I said it exactly how he said it.
  11. In any manner in which; in whatever way; however. not-comparable
    — People should be free to live how they want.
  12. In which. nonstandard,not-comparable,relative
    — The way how you walk is funny.
  13. Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation. not-comparable
    — How very interesting!
连词 conj.
  1. That, the fact that. informal
    — She told me how her father was a doctor.
感叹词 intj.
  1. What?, pardon? US,dialectal
  2. A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
and how anyhow any old how ask how high when someone says jump a straw shows how the wind blows boo how doy 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 everyhow forhow get it how one gets it get it how one lives get it how one lives it how about how about no how about that how about them apples how are things how are you how are you diddling how are you doing how are you getting along how are you going how are you keeping how bist how came you so how can you sleep at night howcatchem how come how dare you 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 sleep at night how do you spell this word how-d'ye-do how embarrassment how far how farest thou how goes it how goes the battle how goes the enemy 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 howness how no how now how old are you how say you how see how should I know howso how so howsofar how's your father how the cow ate the cabbage how the mighty have fallen how the other half lives how the sausage gets made how the sausage is made how the turntables how the wind is blowing how-to how to how-to-vote card how very dare you how would I know how you say it is how it is it's not what you say but how you say it 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 nohow no matter how one slices it how the land lies silly-how snow-how somehow teach grandma how to suck eggs that's how the cookie crumbles

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Germanic *hwō
Old English hū
Middle English how
English how
From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”). /hw/ > /h/ due to wh-cluster reduction in Old English; compare who, which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt wh (Middle English spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift.
Akin to Scots hoo, foo (“how”), North Frisian ho, hü, hur (“how”), Saterland Frisian wo (“how”), West Frisian hoe (“how”), Dutch hoe (“how”), Low German ho, wo, wu (“how”), German wie (“how”), Swedish hur (“how”). See who and compare why.
词源 2
From Middle English howe, hough, hogh, partly from Old English hōh (“promontory”), and partly from Old Norse haugr (“a how, mound”). Compare Old French höe (“hillock, hill”), from the same Germanic source.
词源 3
From a Siouan language; compare Lakota háu. Alternatively from Wyandot haau.
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