いくら
いくら
hepburn ikura
how much (price/quantity)
Part of speech · pronoun / adverb
Pattern visualization
no decomposition available
Examples
- これはいくらですか。How much is this?
- いくら高くても買います。No matter how expensive, I will buy it.
Collocations
いくらですか (how much is it?)いくらでも (any amount)いくら~ても (no matter how)値段 (nedan, price — related noun)高い·安い (price adjectives)
Mnemonic
いくら ikura — interrogative for price/quantity. The shopping basic: これはいくらですか. The pattern いくら + adj/verb + ても = "no matter how ~" is a late-N5 concessive grammar. Always kana (no kanji). The katakana イクラ (salmon roe, food) is a separate word.
Quick check
"How much is this?" — standard Japanese?