English Dictionary

who

IPA（発音記号）

/huː/

代名詞

関係詞 疑問詞 主格 複数形 単数形

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question. / With antecedent as subject.

日本語の意味

（疑問代名詞）誰、どの人物かを尋ねるときに用いられる語。たとえば「誰が来るのか？」という質問で使われる。

I don't know who borrowed my book last night.

昨夜、誰が私の本を借りたのか分かりません。

意味（1）

(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.

Who is that? (direct question)

意味（2）

With antecedent as subject.

That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)

意味（3）

(non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.

That's the man who I saw earlier. (defining)

意味（4）

(fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.

Who insults my mother insults me.

whom （ objective ）

who （ objective ）

whose （ possessive ）