Betydelse av whose på svenska

• 0 used especially in questions when asking about which person owns or is responsible for something:

  • Whose is this bag?

  • Whose bag is this?

• 1 used for adding information about a person or thing just mentioned:

  • Cohen, whose short film won awards, was chosen to direct the movie .

  • There was a picture in the paper of a man whose leg had been blown off.

  • They meet in an old house, whose basement has been converted into a chapel.

  • Fraud detectives are investigating the company, three of whose senior executives have already been arrested.

• 2 used to ask which person owns or is responsible for something, or to say who is responsible for something:

  • Whose bag is this?

  • I don’t care whose fault it is.

  • That’s the house whose kitchen is painted purple.