{"id":7736,"date":"2017-10-22T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2017-10-22T00:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:14:10","slug":"how-to-use-whose-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/how-to-use-whose-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use \u201cwhose\u201d in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ei, gente! Como est\u00e1 o outubro de voc\u00eas? Hey, people! How is your October going?<\/span><\/p>\n

The word <\/span>whose<\/b> is very common in English and it indicates <\/span>posse<\/span><\/i> (possession). <\/span>Whose<\/b> can be used in two ways: as an <\/span>pronome interrogativo<\/span><\/i> (interrogative pronoun) and as a<\/span> pronome relativo<\/span><\/i> (relative pronoun). But how can we say that in Portuguese? As it turns out, we don\u2019t have an exact word that can be translated into <\/span>whose<\/b>, but there are ways to express it depending on the context. <\/span>Veja<\/span><\/i> (take a look):<\/span><\/p>\n

Pronome interrogativo – Interrogative pronoun <\/b><\/h3>\n

Interrogative pronouns are phrases used to <\/span>fazer perguntas <\/span><\/i>(ask questions) such as<\/span> o que<\/span><\/i> (what), <\/span>quem<\/span><\/i> (who), <\/span>qual<\/span><\/i> (which), <\/span>onde<\/span><\/i> (where), <\/span>por que <\/span><\/i>(why) and <\/span>quando<\/span><\/i> (when). In the case of \u00a0<\/span>whose<\/b>, we say <\/span>de quem <\/b>in Portuguese to ask about something\u2019s owner, to know to whom it belongs. Compare how to aks a question with <\/span>whose <\/b>and with <\/span>de quem<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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de quem – whose<\/p><\/div>\n

De quem<\/span><\/i> \u00e9 esse livro? – <\/span>Whose<\/span><\/i> book is this?<\/span><\/p>\n

De quem<\/span><\/i> s\u00e3o aquelas crian\u00e7as? – <\/span>Whose<\/span><\/i> children are those?<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you tell the difference between the construction of the sentence in both languages? In English, whose is followed by a <\/span>substantivo<\/span><\/i> (noun) so we can add the verb, while in Portuguese the order generally is <\/span>\u2018de quem\u2019 + verbo<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read some examples:<\/span><\/p>\n