- used in questions to ask who something belongs to
- Whose house is that?
- I wonder whose this is.
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- used to say which person or thing you mean
- He's a man whose opinion I respect.
- It's the house whose door is painted red.
- used to give more information about a person or thing
- Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
Word OriginOld English hwæs, genitive of hwā ‘who’ and hwæt ‘what’.
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