whether

Pronunciation (Yadda ake faɗi)

Homophones

in accents with the wine-whine merger

• weather
• wether

Subordinator

Subordinator whether

Subordinator ko

1. Whether is used to report questions and things that are unknown. <> ko, ko ma, ko idan.

   I asked whether she had arrived. <> Na yi tambaya ko idan ta zo.

   It is impossible to know whether a change would have helped or not. <> Ta yiwu a san ko sauyi zai taimaka ko a'a.

   for instance, whether they shift to eating chicken reared in ways that they believe to be more ethically acceptable. [1] <> alal misali, ko mutane sun fi cin kajin da suka kiwata da jin cewa sun fi karbuwa da kwanciyar hankali. [2]

Homophone

• weather

Synonyms

• if

Related words and phrases

• whether or not