whichever
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1.0
- determiner
- /wɪˈtʃɛvər/
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cualquier
- Each school in the program can choose whichever version of Linux it wants.
- whichever party
- whichever tool
- whichever method
But I'd like to go in depth with whichever one of those came first.
- But I'd like to go in depth with whichever one of those came first.
- So that's the, as I say, people will cite whichever part, whichever studies line up with their with their belief system.
- So EVGA does this with theirs where some of their power supplies, you can just plug whichever cable into whatever slot you want and it'll work and there's validity there.
- But basically pick for you whichever of your two factors gets simpler, breaks down, gets smaller when you take the derivative of it.
- The the law is the whichever country the plane lands in first have the responsibility of doing the drug search on on the passengers.
Examples
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You can select whichever book interests you the most from the shelf.
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So you can kind of pick whichever sort of shade you want.
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These are all solutions, you can choose whichever pair you want.
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Take whichever one you want!
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So take whichever one makes your life easiest.
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Great Aunt Biddy gives 100 bucks to whichever kid she likes the most during her visit.
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"Phyra learned what she wanted from whichever adults could teach her, and from observing people and nature."
Fiction book (1994) -
Whichever attorney opens with the witness... ...he alone shall continue with that witness... ...until the witness is excused.
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So as of this year now on the calculator you can type in an amount and it will convert it to whichever currencies you want.
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Anyway, Megan or Megan, whichever you prefer.
Surface Forms
Morphology
whichever = which (transparent) = which + ever
Formed from the familiar interrogative/determiner 'which' plus the productive suffix '-ever', a common and predictable pattern (cf. whoever/whatever).
Etymology
Whichever is made of the two words which and ever, where ever means 'at any time' or 'at all'. So it means 'any one from a group', for example 'take whichever book you like'.