meowbrown:

meowbrown:

ほど to the degree of

Another sentence structure that I often get the order wrong.

母ほど綺麗じゃない。

Notes to help me remember:

1. First look at the second part of the sentence: 綺麗じゃない Not pretty. Then ask myself: to what degree am I not pretty?
2. Answer with the first part: I’m not pretty to the degree of my mom.

Another example:

バカな私にもわかるほどこの宿題は易しいです。

1. The homework is easy. To what degree is it easy?
2. Even as stupid as me I can understand.

The second part is the part I want to convey, and the first part is for adding details of to what degree.

Another example sentence I used to struggle with but can understand well now!

彼の話は想像できないほど面白い。
His story is unimaginably interesting.

1. His story is interesting.
2. (to the degree that) You can’t imagine.

I can finally say I understood the usage on my first try today! (Took me almost a year! FINALLY!!!)

そのとこが、泣きたくなるほどうれしいんだ。

1. happy
2. (to the degree that) it makes me wanna cry, this isn’t the literal word for word translation, but I think I can grasp what it wants to convey
   泣く->泣きたい->泣きたくなる

知れば知るほど

I have another post talking about ほど, but here the usage is different.

Verbば + Verb + ほど The more… the more

Here is the sentence I encountered:

知れば知るほど胸が苦しくなる。
The more I know (about it/them), the more my heart aches.

Some more examples:

日本語は知れば知るほど面白いと思います。
I think the more I learn about Japanese, the more interesting it becomes.

食べれば食べるほど太る。
The more I eat, the more weight I gain.

meowbrown:

ほど to the degree of

Another sentence structure that I often get the order wrong.

母ほど綺麗じゃない。

Notes to help me remember:

1. First look at the second part of the sentence: 綺麗じゃない Not pretty. Then ask myself: to what degree am I not pretty?
2. Answer with the first part: I’m not pretty to the degree of my mom.

Another example:

バカな私にもわかるほどこの宿題は易しいです。

1. The homework is easy. To what degree is it easy?
2. Even as stupid as me I can understand.

The second part is the part I want to convey, and the first part is for adding details of to what degree.

Another example sentence I used to struggle with but can understand well now!

彼の話は想像できないほど面白い。
His story is unimaginably interesting.

1. His story is interesting.
2. (to the degree that) You can’t imagine.

ほど to the degree of

Another sentence structure that I often get the order wrong.

母ほど綺麗じゃない。

Notes to help me remember:

1. First look at the second part of the sentence: 綺麗じゃない Not pretty. Then ask myself: to what degree am I not pretty?
2. Answer with the first part: I’m not pretty to the degree of my mom.

Another example:

バカな私にもわかるほどこの宿題は易しいです。

1. The homework is easy. To what degree is it easy?
2. Even as stupid as me I can understand.

The second part is the part I want to convey, and the first part is for adding details of to what degree.