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| firy | 2 how ~ how many? How often? [Mal. piro.] ~ how many? |
| hafiriana | 3 how ~ how many days? |
| ahoana | 4 how ~ how? What? Used in answering a call. Why? What is the cause of it? It is also an exclamation, as ahoana ary! Well then! It admits of the suffix pronouns and tenses: Ny faty aza ahoako (I care not for, or I trouble not myself about death; death has no fear for me!) ~ Ahoanao izany? (What is that to you?) ~ why? how? |
| hoatrinona | 5 how ~ how much ? how many ? |
| akory | 6 how! ~ how! How great! as, akory lahy ny fahabetsahan' ny olona! How numerous are the people! ~ how is that? |
| aiza | 7 how ~ where? Whither? In what place? How? When followed by No it means, by what means? See aia. |
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