JLPT N2EverydayThanks and complaints

何なにから何なにまでabsolutely everything

A fixed phrase: every last thing, big and small, with nothing left out. You will hear it most in thanks, and often in complaints.

thanks

何なにから何なにまでお世せ話わになりました。

Thank you for everything you have done for me.

complaint

問もん題だいが起おきると、彼かれは事じ情じょうを確たしかめずに何なにから何なにまで部ぶ下かのせいにする。

Whenever something goes wrong, he blames every last thing on his staff without checking the facts.

How to form it

何から何まで + verb or adjective

Read なにからなにまで. It sits in the sentence like an adverb, usually with no particle after it.

Goes with: Being looked after (お世せ話わになる, ～てくれる), blame and fuss (～のせいにする, 口くちを出だす), and 違ちがう, そっくり, 初はじめて.
Tone: Stronger than 全ぜん部ぶ, and it comes with a feeling: grateful, fed up or amazed.
Where you'll meet it: Conversation and writing alike, polite or casual.

In use

旅りょ行こうでは、切きっ符ぷの予よ約やくから毎まい日にちの食しょく事じまで、友ゆう人じんが何なにから何なにまで手て配はいしてくれた。

For the trip, my friend arranged absolutely everything, from booking the tickets to our meals each day.

A real "from … to" often comes first, and 何なにから何なにまで sums it up.

初はじめての一ひと人り暮ぐらしで、何なにから何なにまで自じ分ぶんでやらなければならない。

Living alone for the first time, I have to do every last thing myself.

兄あにと私わたしは、性せい格かくも好このみも何なにから何なにまで違ちがう。

My brother and I are different in every way: character, tastes, the lot.

Two things to know

Every kind of thing, not the whole amount

It runs over many different things. All of one thing, a whole cake or all ten questions, is 全ぜん部ぶ.

Not said: ケーキを何なにから何なにまで食たべてしまった。

(I ate the whole cake.)

ケーキを全ぜん部ぶ食たべてしまった.

何なにもかも is the nearest word. It sweeps everything up as one lot, as in 何なにもかも忘わすれたい, "I want to forget it all". 何なにから何なにまで goes through every detail.

"Thank you for everything"

The everyday one is いろいろありがとうございました. 何なにから何なにまで is stronger, for someone who really did see to everything. 何なんでも doesn't work here: it is "anything, whatever it is", not everything someone did.

Close neighbours

家という家N2

Every single one of one kind of thing: every house, every window. Written, to paint a scene.

建たて物ものの窓まどという窓まどが厚あついほこりに覆おおわれていた。

Every window in the building was covered in thick dust.

に至るまでN1

Formal "right down to": it names the far end of the range.

この規き定ていは、申しん請せい方ほう法ほうから違い反はん時じの処しょ分ぶんに至いたるまで、すべての手て続つづきを定さだめている。

These regulations set out every procedure, from how to apply right down to the penalties for a violation.

Check yourself

1Which one fits?

冷れい蔵ぞう庫この牛ぎゅう乳にゅうを（　　）飲のんでしまった。

Choose an answer to see why.

2You are leaving the family you stayed with for a year. Which one fits?

一いち年ねん間かん、（　　）ありがとうございました。

Choose an answer to see why.

More sentences

祖そ母ぼは昔むかしの商しょう店てん街がいのことを、店みせの名な前まえから店てん主しゅの口くち癖ぐせまで何なにから何なにまで覚おぼえている。

My grandmother remembers every last thing about the old shopping street, from the names of the shops to the pet phrases of the people who ran them.

この取とり扱あつかい説せつ明めい書しょには、初しょ期き設せっ定ていから故こ障しょう時じの対たい応おうまで何なにから何なにまで書かいてある。

This manual covers absolutely everything, from the first setup to what to do when something breaks.

留りゅう学がく中ちゅうは、住すむ場ば所しょの手て配はいから銀ぎん行こう口こう座ざの開かい設せつまで、先せん生せいが何なにから何なにまで助たすけてくださった。

While I was studying abroad, my teacher helped me with absolutely everything, from finding a place to live to opening a bank account.