who
pronoun · noun · determinerA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
pronoun
pronounwhomwhowhose
- 1.
(interrogative, nominative, plural, singular)What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
Who says they care? —They themselves do.
Who is coming to your party? Who are your favourite singers?
- 2.
(relative) Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
- 3.
(nominative, plural, singular)(fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
Who insults my mother insults me.
Give it to who deserves it.
- 4.
(informal, nominative, plural, singular)(informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
Who are the Miami Heat?
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
determiner
determiner- 1.
(dialectal, interrogative)(interrogative, dialect, African-American Vernacular) whose
Who phone just rang?
Từ liên quan
Cùng gốc / liên quan
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Nguồn gốc từ
ine-pro From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.