Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
in accents without the "wine-whine" merger
in accents with the "wine-whine" merger:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Määritelmät
Pronominit
- (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.
- As the object of a verb.
- As the object of a preposition.
- (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
- (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.
- (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
Esimerkit
- Whom did you ask?
- To whom are you referring? With whom were you talking?
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
- He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
- He's a person with whom I work.; We have ten employees, half of whom are carpenters.
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[...]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”