Definition of 'whose'
1. pronoun
2. pronoun & determiner
You use whose in questions to ask about the person or thing that something belongs to or is associated with.
3. determiner
You use whose after certain words, especially verbs and adjectives, to introduce a clause where you talk about the person or thing that something belongs to or is associated with.
Whose is also a conjunction.
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English Easy Learning GrammarInterrogative pronounsThe interrogative pronouns who, whom, and whose are used only for reference to people.
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English Easy Learning GrammarRelative pronounsThe relative pronouns are the words who, whom, which, and that.
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whose
whose in British English
determiner
1.
a.
I told him whose fault it was
whose car is this?
2.
of whom; belonging to whom; of which; belonging to which: used as a relative pronoun
a house whose windows are broken
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Word origin
Old English hwæs, genitive of hwā who and hwæt whatwhose in American English
pronoun
1.
that or those belonging to whom
used without a following noun whose is this? whose will look best?
possessive pronominal adjective
2.
of, belonging to, made by, or done by whom or which
whose book is lost? a song whose popularity endures
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British English: whose
/huːz/ DETERMINER
You use whose to ask who something belongs to.
Whose bag is this?
- American English: whose /huz/
- Arabic: لـِمَنْ
- Brazilian Portuguese: de quem
- Chinese: 谁的
- Croatian: čiji
- Czech: čí
- Danish: hvis
- Dutch: van wie
- European Spanish: de quién
- Finnish: kenen
- French: à qui
- German: dessen
- Greek: τίνος
- Italian: di chi
- Japanese: 誰の
- Korean: 누구의
- Norwegian: hvem sin
- Polish: czyj
- European Portuguese: de quem
- Romanian: al cui
- Russian: чей
- Latin American Spanish: cuyo
- Swedish: vars
- Thai: ของผู้ใด
- Turkish: ki onun
- Ukrainian: чий
- Vietnamese: của ai
British English: whose
/huːz/ PRONOUN
You use whose to explain who something belongs to.
He shouted at the driver whose car was blocking the street.
- American English: whose /huz/
- Arabic: الَّذِي
- Brazilian Portuguese: cujo
- Chinese: 谁的
- Croatian: čije
- Czech: čí
- Danish: hvis
- Dutch: van wie
- European Spanish: cuyo
- Finnish: kenen
- French: dont
- German: wessen
- Greek: του οποίου
- Italian: di chi
- Japanese: 誰のもの
- Korean: 누구의 것
- Norwegian: hvem sin
- Polish: czyj
- European Portuguese: cujo
- Romanian: al căruia
- Russian: чей
- Latin American Spanish: de quién
- Swedish: vars
- Thai: ผู้ซึ่งเป็นเจ้าของ
- Turkish: kimin
- Ukrainian: чий
- Vietnamese: của ai
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