Whom

"Whom" in Portuguese

(for nonhumans) o quê

(what person; object of a verb (accusative))

(for nonhumans) o quê

(what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))

a qual

(relative pronoun (object))

as quais

(relative pronoun (object))

o qual

(relative pronoun (object))

o que

(what person; object of a verb (accusative))

o que

(what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))

os quais

(relative pronoun (object))

que

(relative pronoun (object))

quem

(what person; object of a verb (accusative))

quem

(what person or people, object of a preposition (dative))

quem

(relative pronoun (object))

Who vs Whom: Keep It Correct Without Overthinking

A practical test for choosing who or whom in modern writing.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.