when

Senso

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.

Pronunciato come (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".

Frasi

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

Quando sei amato, puoi fare qualsiasi cosa nella creazione.

When will there be a cloud in Australia ?

Quando ci sarà un cloud in Australia?

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

Eravamo a solo mezzo miglio dalla destinazione quando il motore è entrato.

Just the way yours do when you're happy .

Proprio come fanno i tuoi quando sei felice.

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

Quando aveva quattro settimane, la sua famiglia si trasferì a Vienna, in Austria.

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

Alcuni o tutto questo zavorra verrebbero quindi scartati quando il carico veniva carico.

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

Quando ha visto l'oggetto sconosciuto che abbracciava su e giù per il bordo, era assolutamente inorridita.

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

"Perché porti soldi?" chiese all'uomo di tribù, quando aveva perquisito la borsa del ragazzo.