"when" meaning in Englisch

See when in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: wɛn, hwɛn Audio: En-uk-when.ogg , En-us-when.ogg
Rhymes: ɛn
  1. wann
    Sense id: de-when-en-adv-XZlZm2Cg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (wann): wann (Deutsch), quando (Interlingua)

Conjunction

Rhymes: ɛn
  1. als, wenn Tags: temporal
    Sense id: de-when-en-conj--uM1nlDo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: subordinating, temporal, conjunction Derived forms: whenever Translations (Subjunktion, temporal: als, wenn): als (Deutsch), wenn (Deutsch)
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Adverb (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Einträge mit Endreim (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Roter Audiolink",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Wiktionary:Audio-Datei",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "when",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Adverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When will they arrive?",
          "translation": "Wann werden sie ankommen?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wann"
      ],
      "id": "de-when-en-adv-XZlZm2Cg",
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "wɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "hwɛn"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-when.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6c/En-uk-when.ogg/En-uk-when.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-uk-when.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "britisch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-when.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7a/En-us-when.ogg/En-us-when.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-when.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "US-amerikanisch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "wann",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "wann"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "lang_code": "ia",
      "sense": "wann",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "quando"
    }
  ],
  "word": "when"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "before"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Einträge mit Endreim (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Konjunktion (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "whenever"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "subordinating"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "temporal"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "conjunction"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "when",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
  "pos_title": "Konjunktion",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "when he arrived, she opened the door.",
          "translation": "Als er ankam, öffnete sie die Tür."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "als, wenn"
      ],
      "id": "de-when-en-conj--uM1nlDo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Subjunktion"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "temporal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Subjunktion, temporal: als, wenn",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "als"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Subjunktion, temporal: als, wenn",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "wenn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "when"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Adverb (Englisch)",
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Einträge mit Endreim (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Roter Audiolink",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Wiktionary:Audio-Datei",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "hyphenation": "when",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Adverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When will they arrive?",
          "translation": "Wann werden sie ankommen?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wann"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "wɛn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "hwɛn"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-uk-when.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6c/En-uk-when.ogg/En-uk-when.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-uk-when.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "britisch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-when.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7a/En-us-when.ogg/En-us-when.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-when.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "US-amerikanisch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "wann",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "wann"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "lang_code": "ia",
      "sense": "wann",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "quando"
    }
  ],
  "word": "when"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "before"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Einträge mit Endreim (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Konjunktion (Englisch)",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "whenever"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "subordinating"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "temporal"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "conjunction"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "when",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
  "pos_title": "Konjunktion",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "when he arrived, she opened the door.",
          "translation": "Als er ankam, öffnete sie die Tür."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "als, wenn"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Subjunktion"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "temporal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Subjunktion, temporal: als, wenn",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "als"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Subjunktion, temporal: als, wenn",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "wenn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "when"
}

Download raw JSONL data for when meaning in Englisch (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Englisch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-22 from the dewiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.