N4 grammar

疑問詞 + でも

Anyone, anything at all

Formation

A question word plus でも opens the field completely: anyone, anywhere, whatever you like. It is the free choice version, where か picks out one unnamed thing. Handy for being generous in an invitation.

Examples

疑問詞 + でも is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. He talks as if he knew everything.

  2. He begins to sketch no matter where he is.

  3. I'm always on call at home.

  4. Take whichever you like.

  5. Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.