You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.
Source: tatoeba (1853)
Whom
//huːm//
Synonyms for "whom" (4 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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2 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
161 translations across 38 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- etc. pron (relative pronoun (object))
- waarmee pron (relative pronoun (object))
- waarvan pron (relative pronoun (object))
- wie pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Arabic
4 entries- الَّتِي pron (relative pronoun (object))
- اَللَّائِي pron (relative pronoun (object))
- اَللَّاتِي pron (relative pronoun (object))
- اَللَّتَيْنِ pron (relative pronoun (object))
Armenian
3 entries- ում pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- ում pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- ում pron (relative pronoun (object))
Asturian
4 entries- quien pron (relative pronoun (object))
- quienes pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- quienes pron (relative pronoun (object))
- quién pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Bulgarian
2 entries- кого pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- кому pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Catalan
4 entries- qual pron (relative pronoun (object))
- qui pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- qui pron (relative pronoun (object))
- quins pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Czech
4 entries- jehož pron (relative pronoun (object))
- jemuž pron (relative pronoun (object))
- koho pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- koho pron (relative pronoun (object))
Danish
4 entries- hvem pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- hvem pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- hvem pron (relative pronoun (object))
- hvilken pron (relative pronoun (object))
Dutch
1 entries- die pron (relative pronoun (object))
Esperanto
4 entries- kiu pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- kiu pron (relative pronoun (object))
- kiuj pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- kiuj pron (relative pronoun (object))
Finnish
4 entries- joka pron (relative pronoun (object))
- jotka pron (relative pronoun (object))
- keiltä pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- keltä pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
French
3 entries- que pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- que pron (relative pronoun (object))
- qui pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
German
4 entries- dem pron (relative pronoun (object))
- den pron (relative pronoun (object))
- der pron (relative pronoun (object))
- die pron (relative pronoun (object))
Haitian Creole
2 entries- kimoun pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- kimoun pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Hindi
2 entries- किस pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- जिस pron (relative pronoun (object))
Hungarian
2 entries- kicsodát pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- kit pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Ido
1 entries- quan pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Italian
3 entries- chi pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- chi pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- cui pron (relative pronoun (object))
Latin
4 entries- cui pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- cui pron (relative pronoun (object))
- quam pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- quam pron (relative pronoun (object))
Latvian
1 entries- kam pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Macedonian
2 entries- кого pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- кому pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Mari
1 entries- кӧм pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Middle English
3 entries- whom pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- whom pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- whom pron (relative pronoun (object))
Ngazidja Comorian
3 entries- ikao pron (relative pronoun (object))
- nɗo pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- nɗopvi pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hvem pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- hvem pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kven pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- kven pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Occitan
3 entries- a qui pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- que pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- qui pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Polish
3 entries- do kogokolwiek pron (relative pronoun (object))
- kogo pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- komu pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Portuguese
4 entries- (for nonhumans) o quê pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- (for nonhumans) o quê pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- a qual pron (relative pronoun (object))
- as quais pron (relative pronoun (object))
Russian
4 entries- кем pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- кем pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- кого́ pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- кого́ pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Spanish
4 entries- cual pron (relative pronoun (object))
- cuyo pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- cuyo pron (relative pronoun (object))
- quien pron (relative pronoun (object))
Swedish
4 entries- som pron (relative pronoun (object))
- vem pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- vem pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- vilka pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Tagalog
1 entries- kanino pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Tamil
4 entries- எவன் pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- எவர் pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- எவள் pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- யார் pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Turkish
1 entries- kimi pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Ukrainian
4 entries- ким pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- ко́трого pron (relative pronoun (object))
- кого́ pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- кого́ pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
Volapük
2 entries- kime pron (what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))
- kimi pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
Welsh
2 entries- pwy pron (what person; object of a verb (accusative))
- y pron (relative pronoun (object))
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
Whom are you speaking of?
Source: tatoeba (15907)
For whom will you vote for president?
Source: tatoeba (22346)
It is Tom whom I want to see.
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