whoever in English: Any person who does something, when it does not matter which person it is. (pronoun)

Translation

Any person who does something, when it does not matter which person it is.

Word origin

From who plus ever, an old way of adding the sense of any at all.

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"Whoever" means the person who wins, any of them.

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It does not matter which person opens it.

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We do not know who the person is.

who

Used to ask about a person, or to mean the person that.

anyone

Any person at all, when it does not matter which one.

someone

A person you do not name, or whose name you do not know.

everyone

Every person in a group; all the people.

whatever

Anything or everything of the kind you mean; it does not matter which one.

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