English
Etymology
- Who < Middle English whō < Old English hwā < Proto-Germanic *khwas / *khwes / *khwo < Proto-Indo-European *qwos / *qwes .
- Whom < Middle English whōm < Old English hwām (dative of hwā ).
- Whose < Middle English whōs < Old English hwæs (genitive of hwā ).
Pronoun
who (singular or plural, nominative case)
Possessive: whose.
Objective case: whom.
(Note that who is often used instead of whom, especially in informal writing or conversation.)
- (interrogative pronoun) What person or people; which person or people (used in a direct or indirect question).
- Who is that? (direct question)
- I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
- (relative pronoun) The person or people that.
- It was a nice man who helped us.
Noun
WHO
World Health Organisation. Pronounced as initials (W.H.O.), not as an acronym ('who')
Translations
- Arabic: مَنْ (man) (1); اَلَّذِي (allaðíː) m, اَلَّتِي (allatíː) f, اَلَّذِينَ (allaðíːna) m/pl, اَلَّلوَاتِي (allawáːti) f/pl (2)
- Balinese: nyen (1)
- Blackfoot: tahkaa (1)
- Chinese: 誰, 谁 (shuí) (1)
- Cree: awina (1)
- Czech: kdo (1)
- Dutch: wie (1); die (2)
- Esperanto: kiu
- Filipino: sino (1)
- Finnish: kuka (1); joka (2)
- French: qui
- German: wer (1); der/die/das (2)
- Hebrew: מי (mi) (1); אשר (ašer) (2)
- Hungarian: ki, kik pl (1); aki , akik pl (2)
- Ido: qua, qui (plural)
- Indonesian: siapa (1); yang (2)
- Irish: cé (1)
- Italian: chi
- Japanese: 誰 (だれ , dáre), どなた (dónata), どちらさま (dóchira sama) (1)
- Korean: 누구 (nugu) (1)
- Kurdish: kî , kê
- Latin: quis m/f (1); qui m, quae f (2)
- Norwegian: hvem
- Ojibwe: awenen (1)
- Persian: كی (ki)
- Polish: kto (1)
- Portuguese: quem
- Russian: кто (kto) (1); что (što), который / которая / которое / которые (kotóryj / kotóraja / kotóroje / kotóryje) m/f/n/pl (2)
- Slovak: kto (1); čo (2), ktorý / ktorá / ktoré m/f/n (2)
- Spanish: quién (1); quien (2)
- Swedish: vem
- Thai: ใคร (khrai) (1); ที่ (thèè) (2)
- སུ་ (su)
- Ukrainian: хто (khto) (1)
