Which

Etymology
hwilc.

Alternative forms

 * wich (Jamaican English)

Determiner

 * 1) What, of those mentioned or implied (used interrogatively).
 * Which song made the charts?
 * 1)  What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
 * Which is bigger?
 * Which is which?
 * 1)  The one or ones that.
 * Show me which one is bigger.
 * They couldn't decide which song to play.
 * 1)  the one mentioned
 * For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
 * I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.
 * 1)  Used of people (now generally who:, whom: or that:).
 * Thanks be unto god, which hath given us victory.
 * There were six sons, of which he was the youngest.

Translations

 * Arabic: أي
 * Armenian:, որը
 * Bulgarian: кой
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 哪
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,  ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi: कौनसा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hvaða
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Novial: qui
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, какой
 * Slovene: kateri, katera , katero
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఏ (yE)
 * Ukrainian: котрий
 * Uzbek: qaysi
 * Yiddish: ,


 * Armenian:, որը
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, hetwelk, dewelke
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,  ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hvor,  hver
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: qualis, quale, ,
 * Novial: que or  or, ques  or , quu  or , quus
 * Persian: کدام
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: kateri, katera, katero
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఏ (yE)


 * Armenian:, որը
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, dewelke, hetwelk
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, ,  ,
 * Indonesian: yang mana
 * Italian: il quale, la quale , i quali , le quali
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:, , , ,
 * Norwegian: som
 * Norwegian: som
 * Novial: tu kel or, te kel  or  or , tus kel , tes kel  or
 * Persian: کدام
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aquele,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: kel

Pronoun

 * 1)  Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied)
 * He walked by a door with a sign which read: PRIVATE OFFICE.
 * Their first song, which made the charts in 2004, is great.
 * We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle.
 * He had to leave, which was very difficult.
 * We have to protect the environment in which we live.
 * No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.

Quotations

 * 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
 * Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

Derived terms

 * every which way
 * every which where
 * whichever
 * whichness
 * whichsoever

Translations

 * Arabic: الذي
 * Armenian:, որը
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: (referring to the subject);  (referring to the object)
 * Galician:
 * German: der, welcher
 * Hindi: जो
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: qua
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:, , , ,
 * Norwegian: som
 * Novial: kel or, keles
 * Persian: که
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, ce
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: (if a person),
 * Swedish: ,
 * Urdu: جو
 * West Frisian:

Noun

 * 1) An occurrence of the word which.
 * 2) * 1959, William Van O'Connor, Modern prose, form and style (page 251)
 * The ofs and the whiches have thrown our prose into a hundred-years' sleep.
 * 1) * 1989, Donald Ervin Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical writing (page 90)
 * Is it not true, TLL asked of Mary-Claire, that people invariably get their whiches and thats right when they speak?

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