whose in All languages combined

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Whose is this? There's no name on it."
        },
        {
          "text": "Whose coat did you take?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Whose is used to ask what person something belongs to."
      ],
      "id": "simple-whose-en-pron-hqWSomRZ",
      "raw_tags": [
        "question"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves."
        },
        {
          "text": "This is a country whose language is dying."
        },
        {
          "text": "The girl in the picture, whose name is Marion Russell, was from my home town."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Whose is used to join a relative clause about a person or thing."
      ],
      "id": "simple-whose-en-pron-ax93-YwM",
      "raw_tags": [
        "relative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/huːz/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/hu:z/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-whose.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whose"
}

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Whose is this? There's no name on it."
        },
        {
          "text": "Whose coat did you take?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Whose is used to ask what person something belongs to."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "question"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves."
        },
        {
          "text": "This is a country whose language is dying."
        },
        {
          "text": "The girl in the picture, whose name is Marion Russell, was from my home town."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Whose is used to join a relative clause about a person or thing."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "relative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/huːz/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/hu:z/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-whose.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whose"
}

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"whose" meaning in All languages combined

Pronoun [English]