whether

Pronunciation

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Homophones

(in accents with the wine-whine merger)

• weather
• wether

Subordinator

Subordinator whether

1. Whether is used to report questions and things that are unknown.

   I asked whether she had arrived.

   It is impossible to know whether a change would have helped or not.

Homophone

• weather

Synonyms

• if