Betekenis van which In het Nederlands

• 0 (used in questions and structures in which there is a fixed or limited set of answers or possibilities) what one or ones:

  • Which party would you prefer to go to - Anna's or Dan's ?

  • Which doctor did you see - Seward?

  • Which time suits you better - 12.30 or one o'clock?

  • "Jacinta was there with her boyfriend." "Which one? She has several."

  • Which is mine? The smaller one?

  • See if you can guess which one is me in my old school photo.

  • It's either Spanish or Portuguese that she speaks, but I've forgotten which.

  • Which of the desserts did you have?

  • Which of your parents do you feel closer to?

• 1 used to add extra information to a previous clause, in writing usually after a comma:

  • That bar on Milton Street, which by the way is very nice, is owned by Trevor's brother.

  • She says it's Charlotte's fault, which is stupid, and that she blames her.

  • Anyway, that evening, which I'll tell you more about later, I ended up staying at Rachel's place.

  • It's the third in a sequence of three books, the first of which I really enjoyed.

  • He showed me round the town, which was very kind of him.

  • The picking of the fruit, for which work they receive no money, takes about a week.

• 2 used as the subject or object of a verb to show what thing or things you are referring to, or to add information about the thing just mentioned. It is usually used for things, not people:

  • These are principles which we all believe in.

  • You know that little Italian restaurant - the one which I mentioned in my letter?

  • Is that the film in which he kills his mother?

  • The death of his son was an experience from which he never fully recovered.

  • It isn't a subject to which I devote a great deal of thought.

• 3 (used in questions and statements having a limited number of possibilities) what one or ones:

  • Which train do you want to take – the one in the morning or the one in the afternoon?

  • She had trouble deciding which of her dresses to wear to the party.

  • She speaks Spanish or Portuguese, but I’ve forgotten which.

• 4 used to show what particular thing is being referred to:

  • It was a subject which he had never thought much about.

  • The club to which he belonged had just become too expensive.

• 5 used to add extra information about something mentioned earlier, in writing following a comma:

  • She said it would be done by March, which I doubt.

  • The training, for which you will be paid, takes four weeks.