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Meaning whose meaning

What does whose mean?
Definitions in simple English

whose

Whose is used to ask what person something belongs to. Whose is this? There's no name on it. Whose coat did you take? Whose is used to join a relative clause about a person or thing. Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves. This is a country whose language is dying. The girl in the picture, whose name is Marion Russell, was from my home town.

whose

(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom. of which (relative)

whose

(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom. (relative) of whom, belonging to whom

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Simple sentences

Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.
I have a friend whose father is a famous pianist.
Whose pen is this?
Whose notebook is that?
I have a friend whose father is a famous novelist.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
God is a circle whose circumference is a straight line.
Whose fault is that?
Whose grammar book is this?
Whose side is Tom on?
Do you know whose parents they are?
Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.
My next door neighbor is a virtuoso whose skills with the piano have earned him a name among music experts.
Whose is this?
Whose turn is it?
What is the name of the building whose roof you can see?
The house whose roof you can see is Mr Baker's.
I found a bird whose wing was severely damaged.
Soon we saw a house whose roof was red.
Margaret, whose father you met last Sunday, is a very good tennis player.
Whose idea was it?
The ladies are looking after the children whose parents are employed in factories during the daytime.
Mr Smith, whose car I borrowed for this trip, is a rich lawyer.
A republic is a nation whose head is not a king or queen, but a president.
Whose is the book on the desk?
The house whose roof is green is mine.
Whose is the dictionary on the table?

Movie subtitles

Are we the generation on whose watch Western ascendancy is going to end?
And what of the english, whose territorial ambitions had once extended no further than France and whose one big economic idea had been to sell wool to the italians?
As someone working in this office, do you not know whose orders you have to follow?
I will show you all whose words are the rule and the law!
There are HUNDREDS of members of staff whose careers, livelihoods and families depend on the success of this unit.
So what, now, I'm. I'm the only single parent whose kid is having trouble in school?
No. You're the only single parent whose son witnessed his own mother get killed in a hit-and-run and hasn't said a word since.
And whose father has a drinking problem.
There was a young girl from Shanghai whose beauty enchanted my eye.
Ready to hand me over to a man whose face I couldn't see.
Accordingly, you will avoid having to carry out the death sentence passed upon the infanticide. Victorine Lippert, whose petition for clemency has been turned down.
The woman - whose sin was to be a mother.
We caught the thief. But who killed the man whose body lies on the floor?
But whose fault is it?
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
Dear friends, here's the man whose works have inspired the Emperor's policy.
So what, now, I'm. I'm the only single parent whose kid is having trouble in school? No.
You're the only single parent whose son witnessed his own mother get killed in a hit-and-run and hasn't said a word since.
The Woman - whose sin was motherhood.
Suddenly suspiciously watching the windows, whose curtains hide the observer.
But the way you look, with eyes whose glow alone is promise.
Joan whose heart has become the heart of France.
Joan, whose memory will always be cherished. by the people of France.
Be prepared to speak on behalf of the Empire with the great, immortal lama whose soul is forever passing from a dead body to a new one.
However, one point has been contradicted by a witness whose honesty is above suspicion.
Upon going through his papers, a sensational will for this eccentric man was found to the effect that the person in whose arms he would happen to die was to become the sole heir to his enormous fortune.
Charlotte, whose marriage to Dr. Franz Braun is ideal.
Investigations prooved that they were accompanied by a man, whose identity is unkown.
Whose is it?
Whose party was it?
I know whose cane this is.
You're the guy whose picture Venus had on her dressing table.
I once knew a woman whose front hair caught fire when she was making toast.
Whose fault is it if people don't come here?
This my friends, is Napoleon, Emperor of the French. whose overwhelming ambition swept him to world power.
Yes, but do you know whose watch?
And at this very moment we happen to be looking for a scientist. Whose name and whose brain we can use.

News and current affairs

Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
He was, in the true sense of the word, a self-made man, whose pluck, ambition, drive and inner belief in his destiny carried him to the pinnacle of his achievements.
It will subordinate all who really do work - traders, warriors, journalists, and others - to party ideologues whose sole job is to search for enemies.
I do not believe it is right to make a change of such magnitude without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.
As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
Debt crises tend to come out of the blue, hitting countries whose debt trajectories simply have no room for error or unplanned adversity.
Yet it was Yugoslavia, whose foundations are unstable, that was recently admitted to the UN.
The opposition inherited a bankrupt country whose institutions are in ruins.
Ireland owes much of this turnaround to its efficient export sector, whose supporters were able to enforce a political U-turn.
Yet the agreement commits no one to any specific targets, least of all the United States, whose president, George W. Bush, will no longer be in office in 2009, when the tough decisions have to be made.
Moreover, a regional consensus among all the players must be rebuilt, including Pakistan, Iran, and India, whose joint responsibility for peace, stability, and redevelopment in Afghanistan must be recognized by Europe and the US.
It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers' lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.
Of course, there is a prominent example of just that: Kofi Annan, under whose stewardship the UN has undergone a remarkable improvement.
There is no point in belaboring whose pain is greater or whose root cause is deeper.
The recently created European Banking Authority has only limited powers over national supervisors, whose daily work is guided mainly by national considerations.
It could also have been the basis of a confederal state, whose Palestinian part would have benefited from the West Bank settlers' productivity and taxes.
Will it still be the capital of a country whose citizens view the future bleakly and whose politicians have totally lost touch with the electorate?
Less than one in 10 Croats (whose country could be joining the EU in the near future) believes that their country is heading in the right direction.
Villagers whose crops shriveled and whose livestock died in a prolonged drought saw joining the Taliban as an economic opportunity.
A local man whose brothers all serve in the police force, a sports fan, and an amateur basketball coach, Crowley does not move in the same social circles as Gates.
Villagers whose crops shriveled and whose livestock died in a prolonged drought saw joining the Taliban as an economic opportunity. Had there been more irrigation, the Taliban's gains might have been far less impressive.
Japan, whose economic recovery is attributable largely to its deepening ties with China in recent years, is also eager to demonstrate that it regards China not as a threat but as an opportunity, as least in economic terms.

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