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JLPT N3 · Adverb

どんなに (donnani)

どんなに is a Japanese adverb meaning “how; how much”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
どんなに
Romaji
donnani
Word class
Adverb
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. how; how much; to what extent · adverb
  2. no matter how (much); however · adverb · as どんなに...ても, どんなに...でも, etc.

Example sentences

私がどんなにうれしいか言葉では伝えられない。
Words cannot convey how glad I am.
Tatoeba #167944
君は私がどんなに心配しているかを知らない。
You don't know how worried I am.
Tatoeba #177247
どんなに骨を折ってやっても、結果は同じでしょう。
No matter how hard you try, the result will be the same.
Tatoeba #199528

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Source: JMdict entry 1009340 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.