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déterminantpronomcontractioncourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//huːz//

Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

déterminant

  1. 1

    Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

    Whose (wallet) is this?

    We should buy a house. ~ With whose money?

    For whose benefit are you acting.?

  2. 2

    Of whom, belonging to whom.

    This is the man whose dog caused the accident.

    Venus, whose sister is Serena, won the latest championship.

    I dedicate this award to my parents, without whose help I wouldn't have made it this far.

    The victim was a youngster, both of whose eyes were missing.

  3. 3

    Of which, belonging to which.

    We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.

Étymologie

From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).

pronom

  1. 1

    That or those of whom or belonging to whom.

    Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?

    He asked whose the umbrella was.

  2. 2

    That or those of whom or belonging to whom.

    This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.

    For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

    If he starts it on another man's lands, and kills it there, it belongs to the owner of the land; but if he start game on one man's lands, and pursue it to those of another, and kill it there, it is neither the property of the man on whose lands it is started, nor of him on whose it is killed, but belongs to the killer.

contraction

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    Variante de who'sMisspelling of who's.

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

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