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English Interrogative Base Latin Hwenne German 58.When 英

正面 58.when
英 [wen]美 [wɛn]

背面
释义:
conj. 考虑到;既然;当…时;在…时;如果adv. 什么时候,何时;(用于时间的表达方式之后)在那时;其时;当时pron. 那时;什么时侯n. 时间,时候;日期;场合
例句:
1. The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.踏入未知地带最好的对策就是微笑。

1. 同源词:an, one, only.2. an => on- + -e => one.3. an => on- + -ly => only.4. an 其实是 one 的古英语形式。
when 什么时候来自PIE*kwo,印欧语疑问代词根,词源同who,where,why,how.
whenwhen: [OE] When was formed from the ancient interrogative base *qwo- (source also of English what, who, etc) and a nasal suffix which also appears in then. From the same ancestor, but with an additional dental suffix, came Latin quando ‘when’, source of English quandary.=> quandarywhen (adv.)Old English hwænne, hwenne, hwonne, from Proto-Germanic *hwan- (cognates: Old Saxon hwan, Old Frisian hwenne, Middle Dutch wan, Old High German hwanne, German wann "when," wenn "if, whenever"), from pronominal stem *hwa-, from PIE interrogative base *kwo- (see who). Equivalent to Latin quom, cum. As a conjunction in late Old English. Say when "tell me when to stop pouring you this drink" is from 1889."

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