whose

determiner, pronoun

/huːz/

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used in questions to ask who something belongs to（用于问句）谁的
- Whose house is that?那是谁的房子？
- I wonder whose this is.我不知道这是谁的。
used to say which person or thing you mean（特指）那个人的，那一个的，其
- He's a man whose opinion I respect.他是我尊重其意见的人。
- It's the house whose door is painted red.这就是那所门涂成红色的房子。
used to give more information about a person or thing（进一步提供信息时用）
- Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.伊索贝尔，就是他的弟弟，以前曾经听说过这个笑话。

Word OriginOld English hwæs, genitive of hwā ‘who’ and hwæt ‘what’.

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