whom

whom

whom (the singular and plural objective case of who)

1. (formal) What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.

   Whom did you ask?

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVIII:

     “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”

2. (formal) What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a preposition.

   To whom are you referring?

   With whom were you talking?

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I:

     “A very hearty pip-pip to you, old ancestor,” I said, well pleased, for she is a woman with whom it is always a privilege to chew the fat. “And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape,” she replied cordially.

3. Him; her; them (used as a relative pronoun to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.)

   Hes a person with whom I work.

   We have ten employees, half of whom are carpenters.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I:

     The eminent brain specialist to whom she alluded was a man I would not have cared to lunch with myself, our relations having been on the stiff side since the night at Lady Wickhams place in Hertfordshire when, acting on the advice of my hostesss daughter Roberta, I had punctured his hot-water bottle with a darning needle in the small hours of the morning. Quite unintentional, of course.

	chi
	what person; object of a verb (accusative)
	what person or people, object of a preposition (dative)

	cui
	relative pronoun

a chi

che

i quali

il quale

la quale

le quali

Altri significati:

(formal) What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.

(formal) What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a preposition.

Him; her; them (used as a relative pronoun to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.)

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