how long

English

Adjective

how long

Used literally: what length.
How long is that piece of string?

I don't know how long the Amazon River is.
Used literally: what duration.
How long is the flight?

How long is it to lunch?

Derived terms

How long is a piece of string?

Translations

how long (distance)

Chinese:
Mandarin: 多長／多长 (duō cháng)
Dutch: hoe lang
Estonian: kui kaua
Finnish: kuinka pitkä
German: wie lange
Hungarian: milyen hosszú, (what size in general) mekkora (hu)
Macedonian: колку долг (kolku dolg)
Russian: како́й длины́ (kakój dliný)
Spanish: que largo

Adverb

how long

Used literally: for what duration.
How long have you lived in Chicago?

He won't tell me how long he is going to stay.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
  How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.

Translations

how long (length of time)

Arabic: كَم وَقْتًا (kam waqtan), إِلَى مَتَى (ʔilā matā)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多久 (zh) (duōjiǔ)
Danish: hvor længe
Finnish: kuinka pitkään, kuinka kauan
French: pour combien de temps, depuis combien de temps, depuis quand, combien de temps
Georgian: რამდენი ხნით (ramdeni xnit), რამდენ ხანს (ramden xans), რა ხანგრძლივობით (ra xangrʒlivobit), რა ხანგრძლივობის (ra xangrʒlivobis)
German: wie lange
Hebrew: כַּמָּה זְמַן (káma zman), עַד מָתַי (he) ('ad matáy)
Hungarian: (excluding the present) meddig (hu), mennyi ideig, (including the present) mióta (hu), mennyi ideje
Italian: quanto tempo, da quando
Japanese: どの位 (どのくらい, donokurai), どの位 (どのぐらい, donogurai), どれくらい (dorekurai), どれぐらい (doregurai)
Khmer: ប៉ុន្មានត (ponmaan tɑɑ), យូរប៉ុណ្ណា (yuu ponnaa)
Korean: 얼마나 (ko) (eolmana)
Lao: ດົນປານໃດ (don pān dai)
Latin: quamdiu
Ngazidja Comorian: muda hindri
Norman: combian d'temps (Guernsey)
Polish: jak długo
Portuguese: quanto tempo (literally “how much time”), desde quando (literally “since when”)
Russian: как до́лго (kak dólgo), ско́лько (ru) (skólʹko)
Serbo-Croatian: koliko dugo?
Spanish: cuánto tiempo, desde cuándo
Swedish: hur länge
Telugu: ఎందాక (te) (endāka)
Thai: นานแค่ไหน (naan kâe năi), นานเท่าไร (naan tâo rai)
Vietnamese: bao lâu (vi)

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