JLPT Grammar: ～どうやって – How; In What Way

By ProDev Teach | Updated May 2025

???? Meaning & Usage

～どうやって asks “how” or “by what method/means.” Use when inquiring procedures or ways to do something.

???? Examples

• どうやって作るの？
  Dōyatte tsukuru no?
  How do you make it?
• どうやって行きますか？
  Dōyatte ikimasu ka?
  How will you go?
• どうやって使うの？
  Dōyatte tsukau no?
  How do you use it?

???? Practice

1. Fill:

1. ＿＿＿＿勉強しますか？
2. ＿＿＿＿写真を撮るの？

✔

• どうやって
• どうやって

2. Translate:

1. How do you get to school?
2. How do you write this kanji?

✔

• どうやって学校へ行きますか？
• どうやってこの漢字を書きますか？

???? Vocabulary

• 作る (つくる): to make
• 行く (いく): to go
• 使う (つかう): to use
• 勉強する (べんきょうする): to study
• 写真 (しゃしん): photo
• 撮る (とる): to take (photo)
• 学校 (がっこう): school
• 漢字 (かんじ): kanji
• 書く (かく): to write

???? Kanji

• 作: make
• 行: go
• 使: use
• 勉: exert
• 強: strong
• 写: copy; photograph
• 真: true
• 撮: capture
• 学: study
• 校: school
• 漢: China; Chinese (in 漢字)
• 字: character
• 書: write

Related Grammar & Vocabulary

• JLPT N5 Grammar List – 60 Essential Grammar Points
• ちゃいけない・じゃいけない – must not do (spoken Japanese)
• 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?
• どんな – what kind of; what sort of
• どうして – why; for what reason; how

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