how long · long time · long time no see
köken: Literally, “how long”.
🔊 ¿Cuánto tiempo dura?
🔊 Cuánto tiempo sin verte.
🔊 Hombre, ¡cuánto tiempo!
asks when something started; similar to how long in English, but inquiring about when something began rather than how much time has passed since then · since when (expresses doubt)
köken: Literally, “since when...”; used both as a rhetorical question and literally.
🔊 Desde quando você mora aqui?
🔊 Desde quando você sabe cozinhar?
how long?; how far?; how much?
how long, how much, how many
köken: Of native Korean origin. From 얼마 (eolma, “how much”) + -나 (-na, “which”).
🔊 여기에 계신 지 얼마나 되셨어요? — 두달이요.
how far? until what point? · how long? (asking about the total duration or the end point, cf. -ig)
köken: Lexicalization of the më- stem variant of the pronoun mi (“something”) + -ig (case suffix).
aile: akármeddig, ameddig, bármeddig, emeddig, félig-meddig, semeddig, valameddig
🔊 Meddig mehetünk el?
🔊 Meddig maradsz?
🔊 Meddig éltél ott?
how long · as long as, until, during
köken: Compound of quam (“how”) + diū (“long”)
🔊 Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle CI
🔊 Quamdiū mihi cōnsulī dēsignātō, Catilīna, īnsidiātus es, nōn pūblicō mē praesidiō sed prīvātā dīligentiā dēfendī.
how long
🔊 Anh học tiếng Việt bao lâu rồi?
how long? · when?
köken: Univerbation of cá fhaide, literally “what length”.
Teluguca 🔊 ఎందాక /en̪d̪aːka/ How far? · how long?
köken: From ఎంత (enta) + దాక (dāka).
🔊 ఎందాక ఎందాక ఎందాక?
gd 🔊 c' fhad , dè cho fad 's