when

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

cuando

cuándo

si

durante

el cuando

En qué tiempo

qué

a qué hora

qué hora

qué tiempo

qué día

mientras

-ndo

en caso

en cuanto

tan pronto como

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʍɛn/

Etimología (Inglés)

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".

Oraciones

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

Cuando eres amado, puedes hacer cualquier cosa en la creación.

When will there be a cloud in Australia ?

¿Cuándo habrá una nube en Australia?

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

Estábamos a solo media milla del destino cuando el motor entró.

Just the way yours do when you're happy .

Tal como lo hacen el tuyo cuando eres feliz.

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

Cuando tenía cuatro semanas, su familia se mudó a Viena, Austria.

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

Algunos o todo este lastre se descartarían cuando se cargó la carga.

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

Cuando vio el objeto desconocido bajando por el límite, estaba absolutamente horrorizada.

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

"¿Por qué llevas dinero?" preguntó el hombre de la tribu, cuando registró la bolsa del niño.