Kilo Lingo

#231 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

whose

Examples

, , silente.

The man whose house burned stood silently.

?

Whose book is that?

, .

I know the girl whose father died.

?

Whose voice did you hear?

, , .

The one whose heart is pure does not fear.

does duty as both the question word and the relative pronoun, so one form covers "whose book is this" and "the man whose house". It never takes -j or -n, because it is already possessive: any plural or accusative ending goes on the noun it introduces, as in . It sits in the possessive column of the correlative table alongside ties, , and nenies - learn the column once and you have five words rather than one.

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This word is part of lesson 5.