whose

whose [ huz ] function word ***

Whose can be used in the following ways:

as a determiner (introducing a direct or indirect question):

Whose idea was it to come here? (introducing a relative clause):

The winner was a Brazilian player, whose name I have forgotten.

as a question pronoun:

Whose is this jacket?

1. ) used for asking who someone or something belongs to or who they are connected with:

Whose fault is it that we are losing all this money?

What about these glasses? Whose are they?

Whose little girl is she?

a ) used when someone knows or says who someone or something belongs to or who they are connected with:

I've found a bunch of keys, but I don't know whose they are.

He wouldn't say whose names were on the list.

2. ) used for showing that someone or something belongs to or is connected with the person or thing that you have just mentioned:

Help is needed for families whose homes were destroyed in the bombing.

The Khmer Rouge, under whose regime more than 1 million people died, still has some supporters.

They live in a house whose roof could collapse at any time.