By ProDev Teach | Updated May 2025
📘 Meaning & Usage
～どんな is used before a noun to ask “what kind of” or “what sort of.”
💡 Examples
- どんな本が好きですか？
Donna hon ga suki desu ka?
What kind of books do you like? - どんな映画を見ましたか？
Donna eiga o mimashita ka?
What sort of movie did you watch? - どんな料理が得意ですか？
Donna ryōri ga tokui desu ka?
What kind of cooking are you good at?
📝 Practice
1. Fill:
- ＿＿＿＿音楽が好きですか？
- ＿＿＿＿スポーツをしますか？
✔
- どんな
- どんな
2. Translate:
- What kind of tea do you drink?
- What sort of dog is that?
✔
- どんなお茶を飲みますか？
- あれはどんな犬ですか？
📚 Vocabulary
- 本 (ほん): book
- 好き (すき): like
- 映画 (えいが): movie
- 料理 (りょうり): cooking, cuisine
- 得意 (とくい): good at
- 音楽 (おんがく): music
- スポーツ: sport
- お茶 (おちゃ): tea
- 犬 (いぬ): dog
📖 Kanji
- 本: book
- 映: reflect; projection
- 画: stroke; picture
- 料理: cook + arrangement
- 得: gain
- 意: idea; mind
- 音: sound
- 楽: comfort; ease
- 犬: dog
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- だ / です – to be (am, is, are, were, used to)
- だけ – only; just; as much as
- だろう – I think; it seems; probably; right?
- で – in; at; on; by; with; via
- でも – but; however; though
- でしょう – I think; it seems; probably; right?
- どうして – why; for what reason; how
- どうやって – how; in what way; by what means
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