when

Significat

Adv

1. At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
2. At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
3. At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
4. At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
5. The time at, on or during which.
6. (informal) A circumstance or situation in which.

Conj

1. At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
2. During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
3. At what time; at which time.
4. Since; given the fact that; considering that.
5. Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.

Pron

What time; which time.

Noun

The time at which something happens.

Intj

1. That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to 'Say when'.
2. (obsolete) Expressing impatience.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʍɛn/

Etimologia

From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis (interrogative base).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".

Sents

When you are loved , you can do anything in creation .

When will there be a cloud in Australia ?

We were only half a mile from the destination when the engine packed in .

Just the way yours do when you're happy .

When he was four weeks old , his family relocated to Vienna , Austria .

Some or all of this ballast would then be discarded when cargo was loaded .

When she saw the unknown object bobbing up and down the edge , she was absolutely horrified .

" Why are you carrying money ?" asked the tribesman , when he had searched the boy's bag .