Sekirov Dictionary

who

/huː/

pronoun 6
determiner 1
noun 1
forms 2
phrases 2

pronoun6

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which person or which people, used in a question
- You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
- I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.
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With antecedent as subject.
- That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
- My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining)
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With antecedent as object: whom.
- That's the man who I saw earlier.
- My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend.
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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?
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Whoever, he who, they who.
- Who dares wins.
- Who insults my mother insults me.

determiner1

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(dialect) whose
- Who phone just rang?

noun1

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A person under discussion; a question of which person.
- A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist. — 2008

forms

whos · whose

Phrases with who

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