See whether on Wiktionary
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"forms": [
{
"form": "whether",
"raw_tags": [
"Subordinator"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "subordinator"
}
],
"hyphenation": "wheth‧er",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "conj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "I asked whether she had arrived."
},
{
"text": "It is impossible to know whether a change would have helped or not."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Whether is used to report questions and things that are unknown."
],
"id": "simple-whether-en-conj-XpjWS3XE",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "if"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "wĕthə(r)"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛðə(r)/"
},
{
"enpr": "hwĕthə(r)"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛðə(r)/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-whether.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"weather",
"wether"
]
}
],
"word": "whether"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "whether",
"raw_tags": [
"Subordinator"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "subordinator"
}
],
"hyphenation": "wheth‧er",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "conj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "I asked whether she had arrived."
},
{
"text": "It is impossible to know whether a change would have helped or not."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Whether is used to report questions and things that are unknown."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "if"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "wĕthə(r)"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛðə(r)/"
},
{
"enpr": "hwĕthə(r)"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɛðə(r)/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-whether.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"weather",
"wether"
]
}
],
"word": "whether"
}
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