Meaning

5 senses
  1. (interrogative, nominative, plural, singular)What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.

    You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)

    I don't know who it is. (indirect question)

    wer

    ктоkto

    хтоxto

  2. Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.

    (nominative, plural, relative, singular)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)

    der, die, das

    чтоšto, кото́рыйkotóryj, кото́раяkotóraja

    хтоxto, щоščo, ко́трийkótryj

  3. (nominative, plural, relative, singular)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.

  4. (nominative, plural, singular)Whoever, he who, they who.

    Who dares wins.

    Who insults my mother insults me.

  5. (informal, nominative, plural, singular)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?

Examples

30699 sentences
  1. Do you know who he is?

    Ти знаєш, хто він такий? — deniko

    ruЗнаете ли вы, кто он такой? — pauldhunt

    deWeißt du, wer er ist? — Fingerhut

  2. It's not us who did it.

    Не ми це зробили. — User55521

    ruЭто не мы сделали. — shanghainese

    deDas haben nicht wir gemacht. — Cocolate

  3. Do you know who they are?

    Чи не знаєш, хто вони? — shanghainese

    ruТы знаешь, кто они? — shanghainese

    deWissen Sie, wer sie sind? — internet

  4. I wonder who that girl is.

    Цікаво, хто ця дівчина. — deniko

    deIch frage mich, wer dieses Mädchen ist. — MUIRIEL

  5. I don't know who he is.

    Я не знаю, хто він. — deniko

    ruЯ не знаю, кто он. — marafon

    deIch weiß nicht, wer er ist. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
who? (interrogative pronoun):
who (relative pronoun):
Русский
By meaning 2
who? (interrogative pronoun):
who (relative pronoun):
Deutsch
By meaning 2
who? (interrogative pronoun):
who (relative pronoun):

Origin

From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, geni

From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.

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