whom
∞
1.0
- pronoun
- /huːm/
- Formal
:
a quien
- I have 6 grandchildren, 2 of whom I brought with me today.
- many of whom
- people whom
- whom you know
I think that friends with whom we can just be.
- I think that friends with whom we can just be.
- So he says, for whom you yourself are joy.
- And I've spoken to police officers of whom I'm highly critical.
- What am I doing and for whom am I doing it?
- I wish I had someone with whom I could share adventures.
Examples
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About 51% of the UK population are women, 40% of whom are peri- or postmenopausal.
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You are unlikely to do an adequate job on people whom you know only outside your professional context.
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I wish I had someone with whom I could share...
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- To whom is the message?
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For whom and for what?
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The people whom you are trained to treat are those with whom you have a professional relationship.
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Of course, Jackson loves his mom, whom he describes as "cool and relaxed."
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American Jewish leaders, for whom Soviet Jewry was not a pressing issue, tended to agree.
Academic text (2011) -
One collected data from 613 travelers, of whom 398 had previous experience of educational tours.
Academic text (2011) -
I have 6 grandchildren, 2 of whom I brought with me today.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Whom is the older object form of who, and a helpful way to remember it is that the extra -m is like the 'm' in him, which also marks the person who receives the action. So, use whom when the person is the object of a verb or preposition.