Definition von who's
Who's is the usual spoken form of 'who is' or 'who has', especially when 'has' is an auxiliary verb.
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Häufigkeit
who's in American English
(huːz)
Kontraktion von
1.
who is
Who's there?
2.
who has
Who's seen it?
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They were the kind of eyes that ring a bell with a third-former who's just got to
the warpaint bits in Lord of the Flies.
It's like the balloon game: we need to gain height, someone's got to make the supreme
sacrifice, who's it going to be?
I can't help feeling selfishly glad that it's Mrs Winterton and not I who's had all
the arrangements to make.
Going from a skint labourer to a movie star who's been a multimillionaire for years?
To get to a fat cat you need to know who's in his entourage.
Or get that Mountie fella who's been hanging around the dock.
And you sense a composer who's a songsmith to his fingertips - able to encapsulate
important emotions into two-minute forms.
Who's going to cop off with whom?
I picked up the phone and rang Josh, a friend of mine who's a financial broker.
'You know, I think just about everybody who's ever met that scrawny rascal feels exactly
the same way about him.
Example sentences from Collins dictionaries
Who's going to clear all this up?
who's on the blower?
Who's going with you? — Nobody.
It's so easy to lose track of who's playing who and when.
who's your date for tonight?
Who's that guy?
a good-for-nothing employee who's always late
Who's pinched my pen?
Who's going to score?
Who's that?
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tide or tied?
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tied
The was going out, and the sand was smooth and glittering.
principal or principle?
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oar or ore?
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He was using the other as a rudder.
coffee or tea?
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something is not your cup of
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team or teem?
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By March the place is starting to with tourists.
came or come?
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way or weigh?
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way
weigh
I can't think of a worse to spend my time.
die or dye?
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die
dye
My love for you will never .
pole or poll?
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poll
pole
A weekly has shown that the president's popularity is declining.
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