Level 1 · Beginner
How …? How …!: 多 + Adj.
多 + Adj.？ / 多 + Adj. + 啊！
多 (duō) in front of an adjective has two jobs. In a question it asks "how …?": 多大？ "how big?", 多高？ "how tall?", 多远？ "how far?". You already know one of these — 多少 is literally "how many-few", so 多少钱？ is "how much money?"
In an exclamation it means "how …!" or "so …!": 多好啊！ "how nice!", 多漂亮啊！ "how pretty!". The exclaiming version almost always ends with 啊, and that 啊 is how you hear that it isn't a question.
Examples
天气多好啊！
天氣多好啊！
tiān qì duō hǎo a
What a nice day!
学校多远？
學校多遠？
xué xiào duō yuǎn
How far is the school?
你多高？
nǐ duō gāo
How tall are you?
这个多少钱？
這個多少錢？
zhè ge duō shǎo qián
How much is this?
Common mistakes
✗ 你多少高？
✓ 你多高？
多 + adjective asks "how tall / big / far"; 多少 is only for amounts.
Related grammar points
See it in a story
Read this pattern in context: A New Beginning (Part 1) · A Small Farm Problem (Part 2) — free graded stories with tap-to-reveal pinyin and translations.
