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how   
firy ~ how many? How often? [Mal. piro.] ~ how many?
hafiriana ~ how many days?
ahoana ~ 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 ~ how much ? how many ?
aiza ~ where? Whither? In what place? How? When followed by No it means, by what means? See aia. ~ where?

how!   
akory ~ how! How great! as, akory lahy ny fahabetsahan' ny olona! How numerous are the people! ~ how is that?