whose

whose
pronoun
1) interrog. wessen
2) rel. dessen/deren/dessen; pl. deren

the people whose house this is — die Leute, denen dieses Haus gehört

* * *
[hu:z] 1. adjective, pronoun
(belonging to which person(?): Whose is this jacket?; Whose (jacket) is this?; Whose car did you come back in?; In whose house did this incident happen?; Tell me whose (pens) these are.) wessen
2. relative adjective, relative pronoun
(of whom or which (the): Show me the boy whose father is a policeman; What is the name of the man whose this book is?) dessen, deren
* * *
whose
[hu:z]
I. adj
1. (in questions) wessen
\whose bag is this? wessen Tasche ist das?, wem gehört die Tasche?
I don't care \whose fault it is mir ist egal, wessen Schuld es ist
\whose round is it? wer ist dran?
2. (indicating possession) dessen
Cohen, \whose contract ... Cohen, dessen Vertrag ...
she's the woman \whose car I crashed into sie ist die Frau, in deren Auto ich gefahren bin
II. pron
1. poss, interrog wessen
\whose is this bag? wessen Tasche ist das?
\whose is the car outside? wem gehört das Auto draußen?
2. rel (male) dessen; (female, pl) deren
* * *
[huːz]
poss pron
1) (interrog) wessen

whose is this? — wem gehört das?

whose car did you go in? — in wessen Auto sind Sie gefahren?

2) (rel) dessen; (after f and pl) deren
* * *
whose [huːz] pron (gen sg und pl von academic.ru/82194/who">who)
1. interrog wessen:
whose is it? wem gehört es?
2. relativ (auch gen von which) dessen, deren
* * *
pronoun
1) interrog. wessen
2) rel. dessen/deren/dessen; pl. deren

the people whose house this is — die Leute, denen dieses Haus gehört

* * *
pron.
deren pron.
wessen pron.

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