Standard Lemma guide

who

det · name · noun · pron · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Canada, Received-Pronunciation: ho͞o
  • Canada, Received-Pronunciation: /huː/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [huː]
  • Received-Pronunciation: [hʊw]
  • London: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • British, Southern, Standard: [hʉw]
  • British, Southern, Standard: [hʉː]
  • London: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: [hu(ː)]
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: [huː]
  • Canada: [hʉː]
  • rhymes with -uː
  • Early, Modern: h(w)o͞o
  • Early, Modern: h(w)ō
  • Early, Modern: /h(w)uː/
  • Early, Modern: /h(w)ɔː/
  • Early, Modern: /hwɒ/ originally unstressed
  • /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

det

Meaning 1

whose

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal, interrogative

Qualifier: African-American Vernacular

Examples

  • Who phone just rang?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

Initialism of World Health Organization.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

The television show Doctor Who.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Topics: lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A person under discussion; a question of which person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

pron

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: interrogative, nominative, plural, singular

Examples

  • You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
  • I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
  • Who says they care? —They themselves do.
  • Who is coming to your party? Who are your favourite singers?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

pron

Meaning 6

Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.

With antecedent as subject.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nominative, plural, relative, singular

Examples

  • That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
  • My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

pron

Meaning 7

Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.

With antecedent as object: whom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nominative, plural, relative, singular

Qualifier: non-formal

Examples

  • That's the man who I saw earlier.
  • My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

pron

Meaning 8

Whoever, he who, they who.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nominative, plural, singular

Qualifier: fused relative; archaic or marginal; fused relative; archaic or marginal

Examples

  • Who insults my mother insults me.
  • Give it to who deserves it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

pron

Meaning 9

Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, nominative, plural, singular

Qualifier: especially non-US

Examples

  • Who are the Miami Heat?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

pron

Meaning 10

Honorific alternative letter-case form of who, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, honorific

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: World Health Organization

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: United Nations agency, UN agency

History

Etymology

From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kwos, *kwís. The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h. Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.

Across languages

Translations

471 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: OBSH — World Health Organization
  • Arabic: مُنَظَّمَةُ الصِّحَةِ الْعَالَمِيَّة (munaẓẓamatu ṣ-ṣiḥati l-ʕālamiyya) — World Health Organization
  • Basque: MOE — World Health Organization
  • Catalan: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Chinese Cantonese: 世衛組織 /世卫组织 (sai3 wai6 zou2 zik1) — World Health Organization
  • Chinese Cantonese: 世衛 /世卫 (sai3 wai6) — World Health Organization
  • Chinese Mandarin: WHO — World Health Organization
  • Chinese Mandarin: 世衛組織 /世卫组织 (Shìwèi Zǔzhī) — World Health Organization
  • Chinese Mandarin: 世衛 /世卫 (Shìwèi) — World Health Organization
  • Finnish: WHO — World Health Organization
  • French: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Galician: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Greek: ΠΟΥ (POY) — World Health Organization
  • Hungarian: WHO — World Health Organization
  • Italian: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Northern Kurdish: Rêxistina Tenduristiya Cîhanê — World Health Organization
  • Northern Kurdish: RTC — World Health Organization
  • Macedonian: СЗО (SZO) — World Health Organization
  • Mongolian: ДЭМБ (DEMB) — World Health Organization
  • Mongolian: БДЭХБ (BDEXB) — World Health Organization
  • Mongolian: ДЭХБ (DEXB) — World Health Organization
  • Polish: WHO — World Health Organization
  • Polish: ŚOZ — World Health Organization
  • Portuguese: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Russian: ВОЗ (VOZ) — World Health Organization
  • Spanish: OMS — World Health Organization
  • Swedish: WHO — World Health Organization
  • Turkish: DSÖ — World Health Organization
  • Vietnamese: TCYTTG — World Health Organization
  • Afar: iyya — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Afrikaans: wie — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Aklanon: sin-o — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Albanian: kush — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Aleut: kiin — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Southern Altai: кем (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • American Sign Language: L@Chin-ThumbBack Squeeze — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Amharic: ማን (man) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: مَن (man) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chadian Arabic: ياتو (yātu) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: مين (mīn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: منو (minu) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: مين (mīn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Juba Arabic: minuu — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: شكون (škūn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: من (man) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Arabic: مين (mīn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Sudanese Arabic: منو (minu) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Aramaic: מַן (man) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Armenian: ով (ov) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Armenian: ո (o) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Armenian: ով (ov) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Aromanian: tsine — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Asturian: quién — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Asturian: quiénes — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Australian Kriol: hu — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Azerbaijani: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Balinese: nyen — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Bashkir: кем (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Basque: nor — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Belarusian: хто (xto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Bengali: কে (ke) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Bhojpuri: के (kē) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Central Bikol: siisay — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Blackfoot: tahkaa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Breton: piv — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Bulgarian: кой (koj) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Burmese: ဘယ်သူ (bhaisu) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: хто (xto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Catalan: qui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Cebuano: kinsa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chamicuro: na'shanana — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chechen: мила (mila) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Cherokee: ᎦᎪ (gago) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chichewa: ndani — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chickasaw: kata — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 邊個 /边个 — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 誰 /谁 (seoi4) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 邊位 /边位 (bin1 wai2) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 乜誰 /乜谁 — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 何人 (ho4 jan4) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 誰人 /谁人 (seoi4 jan4) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿誰 /阿谁 (aa3 seoi4) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: сый (sɨy) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 底人 (diē-nè̤ng, dē̤-nè̤ng, dē̤-è̤ng) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hakka Chinese: 麼人 /么人 (má-ngìn, mán-ngìn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hakka Chinese: 麼儕 /么侪 (má-sà) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hakka Chinese: 何人 (hò-ngìn) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hakka Chinese: 哪儕 /哪侪 (nai-sà) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 啥人 (sián-lâng) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 誰 /谁 (sûi, chûi, chūi, cho̍ah, chiâ, chôa, tiâng, siáng, siâng) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 啥物人 (sián-mih-lâng, sián-mí-lâng, sáng-n̂g, siàng-n̂g) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 甚物人 (sím-mih-lâng) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 是誰 /是谁 (chī-chūi, sī-sûi) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese: 底人 (tī-lâng) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Mandarin: 誰 /谁 (shuí, shéi) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Mandarin: 何人 (hérén) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Mandarin: 誰人 /谁人 (shéirén, shuírén) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinese Mandarin: 阿誰 /阿谁 (āshéi, āshuí) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Wu Chinese: 啥人 — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinook Jargon: ɬaksta — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chinook Jargon: klaksta — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chukchi: мэӈин (mėṇin) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Chuvash: кам (kam) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ngazidja Comorian: nɗopvi — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Cree: awina — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Crimean Tatar: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Czech: kdo — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Dalmatian: ci — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Danish: hvem — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Dargwa: чи (či) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Dolgan: ким — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Dutch: wie — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Dutch: wie — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Dutch: wē — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Esperanto: kiu — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Estonian: kes — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Evenki: ңи — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Faroese: hvør — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Faroese: hvat — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Finnish: kuka — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Finnish: ken — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Finnish: ketkä — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • French: qui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old French: qui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old French: ki — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old French: cui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Frisian: hwā — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • West-Frisian: wa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Galician: quen — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Georgian: ვინ (vin) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • German: wer — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍃 (ƕas) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Greek: ποιος (poios) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ancient Greek: τίς (tís) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Paraguayan Guarani: máva — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Gujarati: કોણ (koṇ) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Haitian Creole: kimoun — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Haitian Creole: kiyès — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hausa: wā̀nē nḕ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hausa: wā̀cē cḕ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hebrew: מִי (mi) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Higaonon: sin-o — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hiligaynon: sin-o — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hindi: कौन (kaun) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • White Hmong: leej twg — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hungarian: ki — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Hungarian: kik — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ibanag: sinni — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Icelandic: hver — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Icelandic: hvert — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Icelandic: hvað — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ido: qua — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ido: qui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Igbo: ònye — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ilocano: sino — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ilocano: siasino — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ilocano: asino — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Indonesian: siapa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ingrian: ken — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ingush: мала (mala) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Interlingua: qui — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Irish: cé — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Irish: cía — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Italian: chi — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Japanese: 誰 (dare) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Japanese: だれ (dare) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Japanese: どなた (donata) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Japanese: どちらさま (dochirasama) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Javanese: sapa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Javanese: sinten (kromo-level) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Javanese: syapa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Jeju: 누게 (nuge) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kaitag: ча (ča) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kalmyk: кен (ken) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kapampangan: ninu — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Karachay-Balkar: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Karaim: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Karakalpak: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Karakhanid: كِمْ (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kashmiri: کُس (kus) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kashmiri: کۄس (kọs) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kashubian: chto — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kazakh: кім (kım) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Khakas: кем (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Khmer: អ្នកណា (nĕək naa) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Khmer: នរណា (nɔɔ naa) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Khmer: ដែល (dael) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kikuyu: nũũ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kinaray-a: sin-o — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Korean: 누구 (nugu) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Middle Korean: 누〮 (nwú) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Krio: udat — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kumyk: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Central Kurdish: کێ (kê) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: kî — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: kê — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Kyrgyz: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lakota: tuwé — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lao: ໃຜ (phai) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Latgalian: kas — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Latin: quis — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Latvian: kas — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Limburgish: wae — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Linngithigh: a'inh — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lithuanian: kas — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lombard: chi — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Louisiana Creole: ki moun — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Louisiana Creole: ki — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lutuv: ahung — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: кој (koj) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Malay: siapa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Malayalam: ആര് (ārŭ) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Maltese: min — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Northern Mansi: хотьют (hotʹût) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Māori: wai — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Eastern Mari: кӧ (kö) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Mauritian Creole: kisann-la — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Middle English: who — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Mongolian: хэн (xen) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠨ (ken) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Mwani: nani — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Classical Nahuatl: āc — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Classical Nahuatl: āquihqueh — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Classical Nahuatl: āquin — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Neapolitan: chi — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Nheengatu: awá — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Nigerian Pidgin: hú — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Nogai: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hvem — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kven — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Nuer: ɛŋa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ojibwe: awenen — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Okinawan: 誰 (tā) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Church Slavic: къто (kŭto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Church Slavic: ⰽⱏⱅⱁ (kŭto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old East Slavic: къто (kŭto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old East Slavic: хто (xto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old English: hwā — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Saxon: hwē — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰢 (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ossetian: чи (ḱi) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Pangasinan: siopa — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Pannonian Rusyn: хто (xto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Papiamentu: ken — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Dari: کِی (kī) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Iranian Persian: کی (ki) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Polish: kto — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Portuguese: quem — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Punjabi: ਕੌਣ (kauṇă) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Purepecha: ne — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Rapa Nui: aai — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Rohingya: hon — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Romani: kon — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Romanian: cine — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Romansh: tgi — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Russian: кто (kto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Saho: iyya — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Sanskrit: कः (kaḥ) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Scots: wha — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Scottish Gaelic: cò — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̏ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: тко̏ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȍ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: tkȍ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Shor: кем (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Sinhalese: කවුද (kawuda) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Slovak: kto — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Slovene: kdó — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Lower Sorbian: chto — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Upper Sorbian: chto — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Upper Sorbian: štó — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Spanish: quién — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Spanish: quiénes — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Sundanese: saha — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Swedish: vem — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Swedish: vilka — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tagalog: sino — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tajik: кӣ (ki) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Talysh: ki — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Talysh: کی (ki) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tamil: யார் (yār) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tamil: எவர் (evar) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tamil: எவன் (evaṉ) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Taos: pʼų́ — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tat: ki — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tatar: кем (kem) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tausug: hisiyu — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Telugu: ఎవరు (evaru) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tetum: sé — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Thai: ใคร (krai) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tibetan: སུ (su) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tocharian A: kus — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tocharian B: kuse — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tofa: ӄум (qum) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tok Pisin: husat — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tooro: oha — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tooro: baha — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Turkish: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كیم (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Turkmen: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Tuvan: кым (kım) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎊 (my) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Ukrainian: хто (xto) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Urdu: کَون (kaun) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Urum: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Uyghur: كىم (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Uzbek: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Vietnamese: ai — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Volapük: kim — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Volapük: kif — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Wakhi: ku — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Walloon: kî — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Waray-Waray: hin-o — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Welsh: pwy — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Winnebago: peežega — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Yaghnobi: ках (kax) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Yakut: ким (kim) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Yiddish: ווער (ver) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Yola: fho — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Yoruba: ta — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zazaki: kom — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zazaki: kam (diq) — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zealandic: wie — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zealandic: wien — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zhuang: bouxlawz — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Zulu: ubani class 1a/2a — who? (interrogative pronoun)
  • Southern Altai: кем (kem) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَلَّذِي (allaḏī) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَلَّتِي (allatī) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَللَّذَانِ (al-laḏāni) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَللَّتَانِ (al-latāni) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَلَّذِينَ (allaḏīna) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَللَّاتِي (al-lātī) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اَللَّائِي (al-lāʔī) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اللَّوَاتِي (al-lawātī) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: الي (illi) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Arabic: اللي (illi) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Armenian: որ (or) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Armenian: որը (orə) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Asturian: quien — who (relative pronoun)
  • Asturian: quienes — who (relative pronoun)
  • Azerbaijani: hansı ki — who (relative pronoun)
  • Belarusian: які́ (jakí) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Belarusian: яка́я (jakája) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Bulgarian: кое́то (koéto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Bulgarian: ко́йто (kójto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Bulgarian: която (kojato) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Bulgarian: които (koito) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Chamicuro: na'shanana — who (relative pronoun)
  • Corsican: chi — who (relative pronoun)
  • Czech: který — who (relative pronoun)
  • Czech: kteří — who (relative pronoun)
  • Danish: som — who (relative pronoun)
  • Dutch: die — who (relative pronoun)
  • Dutch: wie — who (relative pronoun)
  • Dutch: dat — who (relative pronoun)
  • Dutch: wat — who (relative pronoun)
  • Esperanto: kiu — who (relative pronoun)
  • Estonian: kes — who (relative pronoun)
  • Faroese: sum — who (relative pronoun)
  • Faroese: ið — who (relative pronoun)
  • Finnish: joka — who (relative pronoun)
  • Finnish: jonka — who (relative pronoun)
  • Finnish: jotka — who (relative pronoun)
  • French: qui — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old French: qui — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old French: ki — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old French: cui — who (relative pronoun)
  • West-Frisian: wa't — who (relative pronoun)
  • German: der — who (relative pronoun)
  • German: die — who (relative pronoun)
  • German: das — who (relative pronoun)
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌴𐌹 (saei) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐍉𐌴𐌹 (sōei) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹 (þatei) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Greek: ο οποίος (o opoíos) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Greek: η οποία (i opoía) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Greek: το οποίο (to opoío) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ancient Greek: ὅς (hós) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ancient Greek: ὅσος (hósos) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ancient Greek: οἷος (hoîos) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Gujarati: જે (je) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Hebrew: אֲשֶׁר ('ashér) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Hindi: जो (jo) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Hungarian: aki — who (relative pronoun)
  • Hungarian: akik — who (relative pronoun)
  • Icelandic: sem — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ido: qua — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ido: qui — who (relative pronoun)
  • Indonesian: yang — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ingrian: kumpa — who (relative pronoun)
  • Interlingua: qui — who (relative pronoun)
  • Irish: a — who (relative pronoun)
  • Italian: che — who (relative pronoun)
  • Kumyk: ким (kim) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: ku — who (relative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: yê ku — who (relative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: ya ku — who (relative pronoun)
  • Northern Kurdish: yên ku — who (relative pronoun)
  • Kyrgyz: ким (kim) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latgalian: kurs — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latin: qui — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latin: quae — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latin: quod — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latvian: kas — who (relative pronoun)
  • Latvian: kurš — who (relative pronoun)
  • Limburgish: dae — who (relative pronoun)
  • Limburgish: wae — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: кој (koj) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: којшто (kojšto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: која (koja) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: којашто (kojašto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: кое (koe) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: коешто (koešto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: кои (koi) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Macedonian: коишто (koišto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Maltese: li — who (relative pronoun)
  • Māori: ai — who (relative pronoun)
  • Middle English: who — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old English: þe — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old Norse: er — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old Norse: sem — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old Norse: es — who (relative pronoun)
  • Old Saxon: the — who (relative pronoun)
  • Iranian Persian: کِه (ke) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Polish: który — who (relative pronoun)
  • Portuguese: que — who (relative pronoun)
  • Portuguese: quem — who (relative pronoun)
  • Rapa Nui: aai — who (relative pronoun)
  • Romanian: care — who (relative pronoun)
  • Russian: что (što) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Russian: кото́рый (kotóryj) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Russian: кото́рая (kotóraja) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Russian: кто (kto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̏ — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: тко̏ — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̀јӣ — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȍ — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: tkȍ — who (relative pronoun)
  • Serbo-Croatian: kòjī — who (relative pronoun)
  • Slovak: čo — who (relative pronoun)
  • Slovak: ktorý — who (relative pronoun)
  • Slovene: kdó — who (relative pronoun)
  • Upper Sorbian: kotryž — who (relative pronoun)
  • Spanish: quien — who (relative pronoun)
  • Sundanese: anu — who (relative pronoun)
  • Sundanese: nu — who (relative pronoun)
  • Swedish: som — who (relative pronoun)
  • Tagalog: na — who (relative pronoun)
  • Thai: ผู้ (pûu) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Tocharian A: kusne — who (relative pronoun)
  • Tocharian B: kuse — who (relative pronoun)
  • Tok Pisin: husat — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ukrainian: хто (xto) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ukrainian: що (ščo) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Ukrainian: ко́трий (kótryj) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Urdu: جو (jo) — who (relative pronoun)
  • Vietnamese: người — who (relative pronoun)
  • Volapük: kel — who (relative pronoun)
  • Welsh: sydd — who (relative pronoun)
  • Welsh: sy — who (relative pronoun)
  • Welsh: a — who (relative pronoun)
  • Welsh: y — who (relative pronoun)
  • Zealandic: dien-a — who (relative pronoun)
  • Zealandic: die-a — who (relative pronoun)
  • Finnish: joka — whoever, he who, they who
  • Finnish: se joka — whoever, he who, they who
  • Finnish: hän joka — whoever, he who, they who
  • Finnish: ketkä — whoever, he who, they who
  • Finnish: jotka — whoever, he who, they who
  • Finnish: he jotka — whoever, he who, they who