whom

Meaning

  1. What person or people; which person or people.
  2. What person or people; which person or people.
  3. Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
  4. The person(s) whom; whomever.

Concepts

whom

who

which

that

what

anybody

anyone

somebody

someone

to whom

for whom

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/huːm/
Etymology

From Middle English whom, wham, from Old English hwām, hwǣm, from Proto-Germanic *hwammai, dative case of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Scots wham (“whom”), German wem (“whom, to whom”), Danish hvem (“who, whom”), Swedish vem (“who, whom”).

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