quién
See also: quien
Asturian
editPronoun
editquién
- (interrogative pronoun) who (which person?, which persons?)
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editquién (interrogative, plural quiénes)
- who?, whom?; (with “de”) whose?
- ¿Con quién hablo?
- With whom am I speaking?
- ¡Quién lo hubiera creído!
- Who would have believed it!?
- ¿De quién es este libro?
- Whose book is this?
- ¿Quién enseña la clase?
- Who teaches the class?
- ¿Quién carajo es Kevin?
- Who the hell is Kevin?
- No sabe quién ha llamado
- He doesn't know who has called
- (followed by a subjunctive clause in the imperfect or pluperfect tense) if only; I wish
- ¡Quién tuviera veinte años!
- How I wish I was twenty!
- ¡Quién hubiera tocado la lotería!
- If only I'd won the lottery!
Usage notes
edit- The relative pronoun quien is written without the accent mark.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “quién”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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