different between whomever vs whoever
whomever
English
Alternative forms
- whomsoever
Etymology
whom +? ever
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /hum??v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Pronoun
whomever (objective case of whoever)
- Objective case of whoever.
- Max Beerbohm:
- “To impose his will on whomever he sees comfortably settled.”
- Max Beerbohm:
Usage notes
- Who is a subject pronoun. Whom is an object pronoun. To determine whether a particular sentence uses a subject or an object pronoun, rephrase it to use he/she or him/her instead of who, whom; if you use he or she, then you use the subject pronoun who; if you use him or her, then you use the object pronoun. The same rule applies to whoever and whomever.
- Who can also be used as an object pronoun, especially in informal writing and speech (hence one hears not only whom are you waiting for? but also who are you waiting for?), and whom may be seen as (overly) formal; in some dialects and contexts, it is hardly used, even in the most formal settings. As an exception to this, fronted prepositional phrases almost always use whom, e.g. one usually says with whom did you go?, not *with who did you go?. However, dialects in which whom is rarely used usually avoid fronting prepositional phrases in the first place (for example, using who did you go with?).
- The use of who as an object pronoun is proscribed by many authorities, but is frequent nonetheless. It is usually felt as much more acceptable than the converse hypercorrection in which whom is misused in place of who, as in *the gentleman whom spoke to me.
- For more information, see "who" and "whom" on Wikipedia.
Related terms
- whom
- whichever
- whoever
Translations
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- what's whomever in french
- whomever what does that mean
- whoever does
- what does whomever stand for
- what do whomever mean
- what does whoever mean
- what does however means in spanish
whoever
English
Alternative forms
- whoe'er (poetic)
Etymology
who +? ever
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /hu??v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hu??v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Pronoun
whoever (nominative case, objective whomever, possessive whosever)
- An emphatic form of who.
- Whatever person or persons.
- No matter who.
Usage notes
- Who is a subject pronoun. Whom is an object pronoun. To determine whether a particular sentence uses a subject or an object pronoun, rephrase it to use he/she or him/her instead of who, whom; if you use he or she, then you use the subject pronoun who; if you use him or her, then you use the object pronoun. The same rule applies to whoever and whomever.
- Who can also be used as an object pronoun, especially in informal writing and speech (hence one hears not only whom are you waiting for? but also who are you waiting for?), and whom may be seen as (overly) formal; in some dialects and contexts, it is hardly used, even in the most formal settings. As an exception to this, fronted prepositional phrases almost always use whom, e.g. one usually says with whom did you go?, not *with who did you go?. However, dialects in which whom is rarely used usually avoid fronting prepositional phrases in the first place (for example, using who did you go with?).
- The use of who as an object pronoun is proscribed by many authorities, but is frequent nonetheless. It is usually felt as much more acceptable than the converse hypercorrection in which whom is misused in place of who, as in *the gentleman whom spoke to me.
- For more information, see "who" and "whom" on Wikipedia.
Translations
See also
- whatever
- wherever
- whenever
- whomever
- whosoever
- nobody
Pronoun
whoever
- Misspelling of who ever.
Anagrams
- everwho, however
whoever From the web:
- what whoever means in spanish
- what's whoever mean
- what's whoever in farsi
- what whomever means
- what's whomever in french
- whoever what does it mean
- what is whoever offense
- what does whoever smelt it dealt it mean
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