Translation
how much, how many
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Examples
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How much does the book cost?
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How many people came?
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I do not know how much time remains.
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How much do you want to pay?
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How much longer must we wait?
One word covers both English questions, because Esperanto does not care whether the thing is countable: and are built the same way. The is compulsory before the noun and is the bit learners drop. also works as a plain adverb of degree with no noun at all, as in . It pairs naturally with in a correlative sentence: , . There is no need for , which is a translation from English rather than Esperanto.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 11: kiom, plej, nia and 10 more words.