どう

どう is a versatile question word asking "how" about manner, method, condition, or opinion.

COMMON PATTERNS:

• どうですか: How is it? / What do you think?
• どう思(おも)いますか: What do you think?
• どうしますか: What will you do?
• どう読(よ)みますか: How do you read (this)?

MAKING SUGGESTIONS:
〜のはどうですか: How about ~?
映画(えいが)を見(み)るのはどうですか: How about watching a movie?

COMPOUNDS WITH どう:

• どうして: why (also: how)
• どうも: somehow; very much (thanks)
• どうぞ: please, go ahead
• どうしても: no matter what, by all means
• どうやって: how (method)

PART OF KO-SO-A-DO:
どう corresponds to こう (this way), そう (that way), ああ (that way, far).