whose
/huːz/
US pronunciation
American sound/huːz/
whose
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Long vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> whose
Myanmar meaning
(adj) ဘယ်သူ၏။မည်သူ၏။ (pron) ဘယ်သူ၏။မည်သူ၏။ (conj) ဘယ်သူ၏။မည်သူ၏။ (rel pron) ၏.......ဖြစ်သော။
Full entry
whose /hu:z/ interrog pron , interrog det
မည်သူ၏။ ဘယ်သူ၏။ Whose (house) is that? ❍ I wonder whose (book) this is.
rel det (က) ၏…ဖြစ်သော။ the boy whose father is a singer ❍ the people whose house was broken into last week.
(ခ) …ရှိသော။ the house whose front door has a glass panel (ie instead of the house with a front door with a glass panel).
More examples
- Help is needed for families whose homes were destroyed in the bombing.
- Haig led the British army, under whose command the Commonwealth forces also fought.
- They live in a house whose roof could collapse at any time.
- Whose fault is it that we are losing all this money?
- What about these glasses? Whose are they?
- Whose little girl is she?
- I’ve found a bunch of keys, but I don’t know whose they are.
- He wouldn’t say whose names were on the list.
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