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pronoun (wikipedia, Who (pronoun))
(desc=singular or plural, nominative case, possessive, whose, objective case, whom)
(Note that who is often used instead of whom, especially in informal writing or conversation.)
- (context, interrogative pronoun) What person or people; which person or people (used in a direct or indirect question).
- Who is that? (direct question)
- I don't know it is. (indirect question)
- (context, relative pronoun) The person or people that.
- It was a nice man helped us.
Translations: - Dutch: die(nl)
- French: qui(fr)
- German: der/die/das
- Italian: chi(it)
- Spanish: quien(es)
Etymology: hwa, hwÄ (dative hwam, hwÄm, genitive hwís) < - khwas,
- khwes,
- khwo < (PIE.)
- kwos,
- kwes.
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