📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 8 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 2 · Questions
Cómo and cuánto — how and how many
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 8 of 30: Cómo asks how: ¿Cómo estás? On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
cómo
how
KOH-moh
cuánto
how much
KWAHN-toh
cuántos
how many (m)
KWAHN-tohs
cuántas
how many (f)
KWAHN-tahs
¿cuántos hermanos tienes?
how many brothers and sisters do you have?
KWAHN-tohs ehr-MAH-nohs TYEH-nehs
¿cuántas sillas hay?
how many chairs are there?
KWAHN-tahs SEE-yahs eye
mal
badly
mahl
más o menos
so-so
mahs oh MEH-nohs
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Cómo asks how: ¿Cómo estás? ¿Cómo te llamas? — both old friends from Module 1. Cuánto asks how much, and it AGREES with what it counts: ¿Cuántos hermanos tienes? ¿Cuántas sillas hay?
Y también · And also
Cuánto has four forms — cuánto, cuánta, cuántos, cuántas — and picks the one that matches the noun after it, exactly the way an adjective would.
Ojo · Watch out
cuánto agrees with the noun it counts: ¿cuántos libros?, ¿cuántas mesas? Only the bare "how much" question, ¿cuánto cuesta?, keeps the -o.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with cómo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 8 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.